[gentoo-dev] Pseudo up-for-grabs: dev-lang/rust, dev-lang/rust-bin, virtual/rust

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

Hi all,

rust@ is essentially empty as gyakovlev is long-term away and
dev-lang/rust, dev-lang/rust-bin, virtual/rust, sys-devel/rust-std,
etc all need _at least one_ maintainer.

xen0n has been doing some of the bumps but he's only really doing
so drive-by (although with best-effort review) and isn't AFAIK
interested in maintaining Rust full-time.

gyakovlev had some notes at
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:GYakovlev/Rust_bump on bumping Rust,
might be that xen0n can improve that a little bit to improve handover if
necessary.

Ultimately, Rust needs an active maintainer who is on-top of the
ecosystem and able to handle the regular bumps every 6 weeks.

We already have a package needing not-in-tree rust-1.75.0
(https://bugs.gentoo.org/922880) which was only released 3-4 weeks
ago.

Please consider stepping forward if you rely on Rust. There's more
than enough advocates for it, there should be someone who is able
to then handle the packaging side.

thanks,
sam