- Allow opting out of the opinionated parts in a relatively easy way. You can’t force other adults to align with your philosophy here, and trying is just going to cause problems.
Would a link to crates.io be enough here? When I want objective data, I go to crates.io; when I want curated info about crates or want to find a new crate for some topic I go to lib.rs; when I want hand-written info about crates I go to blessed.rs/crates.
I personally agree with your point 1. and slightly agree with your point 3.
So, the main blocking problem for transitioning to the Threadiverse is that there are too many alternatives?
I know that the Rust project doesn’t often make things “official”, but in this case this would be a very easy way to solve a very real problem.
Later, when we have some way to collect communities together, we can diversify again to have a bit more resiliency against one server going down.
I know the Leadership Council is probably busy, but I would really love if they would do this (though I’m not very deep in the Rust Project myself, so I can’t kick this off).