Rust: Changes in the Core Team (opens in new tab)

I think this is the post you were talking about where the Rust Moderation team resigned

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306845

There was a lot of speculation about Amazon's role in what happened, I'm not sure if any of it was true but worth noting.

My take is that someone on the Core team violated the Code of Conduct and refused to listen to the Moderation team, and the moderation team felt undermined and resigned in protest. But they were purposefully vague (probably so as not to burn any bridges).

It seems very likely that some of these changes in the Core team are related to that

I recall something about imposing Amazon corporate conventions on project governance, and people worried Amazon might start doing to Rust what Google has been doing to C++. As in that case, probably most of what Amazon wants for Rust, most other people want too, except for unlimited complexity. Corporations, by their nature, want things to be as complex as possible, regardless of what any individual -- even anyone who works there -- wants.

>remaining maintainers

Just to be clear, the "Core Team" is different from the "Compiler Team".

https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/compiler

https://www.rust-lang.org/governance