Summary

This RFC proposes that we:

Move crates that are widely used in the embedded ecosystem into the rust-embedded organization
Significantly expand the membership of the rust-embedded org and organize the members into teams focused in different areas.
Create guidelines for developing and maintaining the crates in the rust-embedded org.
Settle on a policy for the inclusion of new crates and creation of new teams.

Detailed design

Teams

This section describes the role of the teams and mechanisms for changing their memberships.

Role

The role of a team is to oversee the development of the crates under their purview. With input from stakeholders they set the development roadmap of each crate assigned to them.

The members of a team are the main reviewers of the crates assigned to the team. Teams are free to add collaborators (reviewers) to the repositories they oversee, and to increase / modify their membership as they see fit.

The team is in charge of publishing new versions of the crates they oversee to crates.io, and of maintaining the CHANGELOG of the project.

Membership

For visibility, the membership of each team, along with the set of crates they oversee, will be listed in the README of the rust-embedded/wg (previously known as rust-lang-nursery/embedded-wg) repository.

Adding new members

A person that wants to join a team (the "candidate") will first consult with (part of) the team. The team may decide that the candidate participates as a collaborator to one of the repositories maintained by the team before they apply for membership. After receiving a soft OK from (part of) the team the candidate will send a PR to the rust-embedded/wg repository modifying the README file to list themselves as a new member.

The complete team will review the PR and perform one of these 3 actions: approve the PR, abstain from reviewing, or raise a concern. When the PR achieves the majority of votes (defined below) it will be merged and the membership changes will be made effective.

Voting majority

Voting majority is defined as having more approvals than abstentions and zero unresolved concerns. In the case where there are equal numbers of approvals and abstentions (i.e. the team has an even number of members) the WG lead will give the casting vote.

Removing members

When (part of) a team wishes to remove one of its member they will make a PR to the rust-embedded/wg repository updating the README with the modified membership. The team minus the member being removed will vote on the proposal. After voting majority (defined in the previous section) has been achieved the PR will be merged and the membership changes will be made effective.

In the case where the member wishes to retire the procedure is similar. The retiring member will make a PR notifying the team (e.g. "cc rust-embedded/$team"). In this case no voting is necessary. The PR will be merged and the changes will be made effective.

The triage team

A special team named triage will be also be created. This team has the very important task of keeping the PR queues moving and making sure no PR gets stuck in the review limbo.

This team will consist of volunteers that will periodically triage open PRs to rust-embedded repos. When triaging the members of the triage team will assign or change reviewers, add or change the labels of the PR, and/or comment on the PRs; they will not review PRs while triaging.

The triage procedure

The proposed triage procedure is the one used to triage PRs in the rust-lang/rust repo.

Projects

The section describes the guideline for incorporating projects into the rust-embedded organization and the mechanism for adopting projects.

Inclusion guideline

Only projects (crates or documentation) that are widely used and / or that have a wide scope will be maintained by the embedded-rust org. Additionally, if the project is a crate it must compile on the stable channel by Rust 1.31 (2018-12-06); if the project is documentation all the included code and patterns must be usable on the stable channel.

In principle, this guideline excludes HAL implementation crates like the stm32f103xx-hal and board support crates because of their narrow scope but exceptions could be made for crates, like the f3 crate, that are dependencies of widely used resources like the discovery book.

Adopting projects

An author that wishes to have their project adopted by the rust-embedded org should first approach the team that would oversee their crate if it were to be adopted. If the author is unsure which team should take ownership of their project they will first open an issue in the rust-embedded/wg repository requesting input.

After getting a soft OK from (part of) the team the author will send a PR to rust-embedded/wg adding their repository to the list of crates the team maintains. After voting majority (see definition in the membership section) the PR will be merged, ownership will be transferred and the author will become a collaborator of the transferred repository.

Guidelines

This section contains a set of guidelines that aim to standardize the management of projects within the rust-embedded org.

Reviewing

The master branches will be protected and can't be directly pushed to.
All changes will go through a PR that must pass review and bors before landing. Team members and collaborators can't approve their own PRs.

Breaking and major changes must be consulted with other team members, reviewers and stakeholders before the PR is reviewed. The team will decide whether a mini RFC, listing the rationale of the change and the alternatives, needs to be written.

Mandatory: Read the Rust API guidelines before you start reviewing PRs that add new API.

Publishing

Publish patch releases (bug fixes) often.
Publish minor releases as soon as all the new features have been properly documented.
Try to avoid frequent major (breaking) releases. Collect several breaking changes into a single major release.
Before publishing a breaking release, read semver-trick and apply it to minimize breakage.

Repository contents

The README of all repositories will indicate which team is in charge of the repository and it will link to the teams section of the README in the rust-embedded/wg repo.
All the repositories that are crates will maintain a CHANGELOG.md file that adheres to the keep a changelog format.

The repository will include a copy of Rust's Code of Conduct. Each team will enforce the code of conduct in the repositories they govern.

Where appropriate the repositories will adopt the 2018 milestones used in the rust-embedded/wg repository.

Other changes

Transfer the rust-lang-nursery/embedded-wg to the rust-embedded org and rename it to rust-embedded/wg.
The embedded Rust book and the embedonomicon which currently live in rust-embedded/wg will be moved into their own repositories.
The newletters in rust-embedded/wg will also be moved into their own repository.
The logo of the rust-embedded org will change to the embedded WG logo.
All members of the rust-embedded org will be able to manage issues and PRs in the rust-embedded/wg repository.

Alternatives

An alternative to this proposal is to have the architectures teams be their own independent orgs.

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