Alex Gaynor recently announced he is formally stepping down as one of the maintainers of the Rust for Linux kernel code with the removal patch now queued for merging in Linux 6.19.
Alex Gaynor was one of the original developers to experiment with Rust code for Linux kernel modules. He’s drifted away from Rust Linux kernel development for a while due to lack of time and is now formally stepping down as a listed co-maintainer of the Rust code. After Wedson Almeida Filho stepped down last year as a Rust co-maintainer, this now leaves Rust For Linux project leader Miguel Ojeda as the sole official maintainer of the code while there are several Rust code reviewers.
I think it’s time for this instance to consider introducing a filter where users have to choose a language they know (any language), and then have to answer easy questions about it (in a specific way), before being able to post here.
It can be limited to specific posts, to limit the false-negative filtering of genuine discourse.
This should help with bots, or worse, actual humans who accepted being shaped into acting like ones. The line separating the two has become very thin anyway, given the prevalence of LLM use, both automatic AND manual.