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"target group" for windows in Rust compiler team #5

Closed nikomatsakis closed 4 years ago

nikomatsakis commented 4 years ago

Hi folks,

Recently the compiler team's "meta working group" has been contemplating creating a "Windows target group", as you can read about in https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/293 (which links to this hackmd.

Someone pointed me at this group, which I didn't know existed! (Or, if I did, I had forgotten.) I'm excited to find it. Let's chat! It seems like there would be a lot of overlap here, though I imagine the group I am proposing would be more narrowly focused on rustc and core toolchain issues, whereas this group perhaps has a broader focus.

nikomatsakis commented 4 years ago

There is a Zulip stream here btw associated with rust-lang/compiler-team#293.

retep998 commented 4 years ago

I don't see why this group can't do both broader focus stuff, and narrower rustc and core toolchain issues. Some of the narrower stuff would require looking at things from a broader focus anyway, and there would be so much overlap.

Perhaps we can start with just this one group for now, pulling in anyone you think would be a good candidate, and in the future we can reevaluate whether we need to split off more focused sub teams.

Lokathor commented 4 years ago

Also, niko, this group mostly just declared itself to exist "unofficially" one day a few months ago. As far as I know we never really actually communicated our declaration back to anyone on any official team at any point. So don't feel bad that you "forgot" thus group. Quite the opposite.

ratijas commented 4 years ago

@retep998

pulling in anyone

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nikomatsakis commented 4 years ago

I don't see why this group can't do both broader focus stuff, and narrower rustc and core toolchain issues.

I would like to have the "official" compiler setup that I described regardless, because it would integrate into our tooling, and allow us to do things like @rustbot ping windows and have everybody get cc'd. That's probably the most immediately useful thing. (I think that the idea of growing up a more active "area of expertise" that can help guide active design would be a nice byproduct, and probably something we would look to do after we've got the notification list up and going.)

Because of how github teams work, I don't think we can "ping" a team like @rust-windows/wg or something, though, so I think y'all would have to add your names to the list individually.

retep998 commented 4 years ago

Ah true, so we'd still need the distinct rust-lang group for being pinged and such, but we can still consolidate stuff like meetings and discussions.

nikomatsakis commented 4 years ago

The group exists now! https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2020/06/09/windows-notification-group.html

I'll close this issue for now.