Hand over to rust-lang?

[kud1ing]

With some sadness i've discovered the "not maintained" disclaimer. People cite "Rust by example" as one of the most useful Rust resources. Would it make sense and would there be interest in handing this repository over to rust-lang?

cc @japaric, @steveklabnik, @aturon, @brson

[abonander]

+1, would love to see this worked on more.

[benjycui]

+1, this project is very useful.

[steveklabnik]

I wouldn't be opposed to figuring out a way to transition this into an official repository.

[brson]

I think rust-lang should probably take it to try to keep it from bitrotting. Maybe having under the umbrella will encourage more contributions. I am wary of having more 'stuff' to keep watch over but rust-by-example is just another drop in the bucket next to all the other stuff present and future that rust-lang needs to maintain.

[aturon]

If we do this, we may want to migrate to https://github.com/aturon/rust-book, a Rust port of gitbook that's used to render the guidelines. It's a relatively easy conversion, and the output looks reasonable, but it doesn't have quite all the bells and whistles of gitbook (yet!)

[FranklinChen]

"Rust by example" has definitely been a useful resource to me. Let me know if there is something concrete I can do to contribute to keeping it alive.

[areski]

+1 This guide has been very useful to me too, huge thanks to @japaric

[tjkierzkowski]

+1 Thanks to @japaric! This resource has been helpful and was also my first real contribution to a Rust project :)

[orium]

+1. I have learn rust with this (while consulting the guide for more details). This is a very useful project to quickly get your hands in rust.

[strega-nil]

If anyone wants me to, I would be willing to take up maintaining this. I'm not the best at Rust, but I'm a student, so I have a lot of time.

Edit: and I have now sent a pull request that fixes every compilation issue.

[rohitjoshi]

+1

[tomjakubowski]

Thanks so much @japaric for creating such a great, comprehensive work of documentation!

[mquandalle]

:+1:

[mkaito]

:+1:

[ghost]

+1 I was pretty bummed out when I saw the warning. The guide is too lacking despite it being a good introduction of all the features included in the language.

[mcanlas]

What should the next step be? Is there an official hand-off in the works?

[ztdwu]

+1

[eddyb]

+1

[vks]

It would be great to have more people that can merge pull requests. I think a lot of the currently open pull requests can be merged. (Fixing some bitrot might be required though.)

[Arcterus]

I'd be willing to help maintain this.

[buster]

Rust-by-example has been a great resource and is also a great site to point beginners to, it would be a shame to see it gone

[supr]

:+1:

[idwaker]

+1

[drewm1980]

I have found it very useful too; sometimes you can grok something just by looking at a handful of usage examples, without taking the time to read an explanation. But reducing workload of the people maintaining the docs is very important too... Perhaps a "cheetsheet" could be generated automatically by just parsing out the code examples from the guide, or from the reference?

[chenyukang]

+1

[sinistersnare]

+1 to @aturon, we would probably want to switch to a rust-solution like rust-book if we do this.

[timonv]

+1

[ghost]

+1

[abonander]

Alternately, would the Piston team be interested in shepherding this repo?

[mgadzhi]

+1

[mkpankov]

:+1:

[strega-nil]

@cybergeek94 Why would Piston be interested in this? It seems... not very related.

[mkpankov]

He meant Piston-the-game-engine-in-Rust. I doubt that dumping every single project to them is a good idea though.

1 декабря 2014 г. 15:12:54 GMT+03:00, Nicholas notifications@github.com пишет:

@cybergeek94 Why would Piston be interested in this? It seems... not very related.

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[strega-nil]

@mkpankov No, I know, that's what I'm saying. Why would a game engine team be interested in a tutorial?

[mahkoh]

+1, everything related to rust should be under the control of the Mozilla Corporation which clearly knows what's best.

[v217]

:+1:

[japaric]

@brson I'll be happy to hand this repo over to the rust-lang organization, if the rust-lang team is OK with the extra workload. Do let me know when you've reach a decision, so we can coordinate the transition. (We'll have to ask the owner of the rustbyexample.com domain to update the CNAME record, etc)

[strega-nil]

@japaric Who owns rustbyexample.com?

Also, looking at the who.is, it looks like it's expired. So... what's up with that? Do you know?

[c0gent]

+1

[kaisellgren]

+1

[abonander]

Okay all, we can stop with the +1's. Everyone's on-board already, it's just noise now.

[abonander]

@GBGamer I figured the Piston team might be interested in maintaining it if Rust-Lang couldn't accomodate it. They don't exclusively deal with games programming.

[strega-nil]

@cybergeek94 I was not aware. I've only ever heard of them in relation to games programming, so I dunno.

[ghost]

+1

[brson]

Perhaps as an intermediate step we could add some more maintainers (I'd be happy to be one, and there seems to be lots of interest), get everything building again against nightly.

[strega-nil]

@brson My pull request already builds against nightly. We just need to merge.

[brson]

Thanks @GBGamer!

[brson]

I've pushed a new build with @GBGamer's changes, removing the deprecation warning. I'll try to pay attention to pull requests from now on and keep the site updated. I'd strongly encourage others to help maintain as well.

[abonander]

I'm willing to help. I contributed the HashMap section.

[strega-nil]

I'm also willing. I love this project, it's a ton of fun.

I'd like to start work on comments. It seems a bit ridiculous that this hasn't actually been a thing yet.