You likely have already noticed, but traffic to rust-dev has decreased dramatically in recent months. This was a result of natural changes in project coordination at first, and then an intentional effort to phase out the list.
In the beginning of the project there were only two places to talk about rust: #rust and rust-dev, and they served us well for all purposes for several years. As Rust grew though the coordination of the project moved to different venues, conversations were happening in a number of other places, and the purpose of rust-dev became less clear. At the same time there were also a number of heated and essentially unmoderatable discussions that caused many to lose faith in the effectiveness of the mailing list. For the last few weeks the existence of rust-dev has no longer been publicly advertised, and yesterday I made the request to Mozilla IT to shut down the list for good. The archives will remain available since they provide information of potential historical interest. I know some people prefer mailing lists and to them I offer my regrets. As of now these are the recommended places to discuss Rust: * https://discuss.rust-lang.org - Project coordination ('internals' discussion) and design discussion * https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs - PR's for fully-baked near-term proposals, and the issue tracker for longer-term designs * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rust - Specific questions about how to use the language * http://reddit.com/r/rust - Links, news, announcements, discussions * The various IRC channels In the coming weeks we will also set up a second Discourse instance for general Rust discussion (compared to the current one at discuss.rust-lang.org which is for 'internals'). The intent is to provide a place for all types of discussion about Rust that will scale to the needs of the project as it grows, and to replace some of the remaining role of rust-dev as a general discussion forum. It is not intended to replace either StackOverflow nor Reddit, but to complement them by accommodating types and volumes of content that may be less appropriate for those venues. Some of the recent conversations on this topic are: * http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/is-it-time-to-kill-the-mailing-list/611/45 * https://github.com/rust-lang/meeting-minutes/blob/master/weekly-meetings/2015-01-20.md * https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2t405p/weekly_meeting_20150120_goodbye_view_items_deref/ Regards, Brian
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