This Week in Rust editors' thread

@llogiq To start I want to privately solicit ideas from people on the various teams and see how the response is.

Edit: @llogiq But if you want to be the one to contact them and pull the ideas together that would be amazing. I've already started a private email thread this week but maybe next week.

Unzombifying this thread. I'm thinking of suggesting contributing to TWiR on the website. Are there more things that people can help with? Feature articles perhaps.

@nasa42 In addition to the subteam reports, will you consider linking to the weekly triage digest? These don't get a lot of visibility.

Sure!

Perhaps advertise the calendar more. For example, I didn't see the German Rhein-Main-Area Meetup on Friday 13th there, and I'm not exactly sure how to submit it.

@llogiq for an event to appear on calendar, it needs to be emailed to @brson, which doesn't seem optimal. Maybe we can start a thread of events so that everyone can add to it?

I like that idea.

@nasa42 That's not quite true. Many people have access to the calendar. Basically, if you raise your hand, you can get access.

I can add events, too, for example. Maybe that should be better communicated.

The calender has the advantage for the community team to stay ahead of things happening on the other end of the world much better then with an unstructured thread.

Not really sure where to put this, but MaidSafe is hiring a Rust programmer: https://www.talented.scot/Advert/180-Open-Source-Software-Engineer-(C--C--Ruby--Java--Rust)-Jobs-Scotland-Ayrshire.aspx

@nasa42 Hey look more stuff for the job board!

@nasa42: Also https://twitter.com/jarrednicholls/status/664446704410861568

Can you keep these job postings running for a while? Not sure how we can effectively track when they close...

Hey TWIR editors, I was wondering if you could give a shoutout to rustfmt this week: we've moved to the rust-lang-nursery which is a big step towards becoming a mature and official tool, cargo install works for us (cargo install --git https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustfmt), and I started a thread here on users. where people can get easy support (Try Rustfmt on your code).

https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustfmt/README.md and https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustfmt/Contributing.md have a bunch of info about the tool for users and new contributors.

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@brson until we have more sophisticated flow, I'll just manually check if they are still open.

@nrc sure!

Mozilla now hiring someone to work on Rust itself: https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/o0H41fww

rustbyexample.com was just updated to include a new error handling section via this PR. It was based on burntsushi's error handling blog post. While the approach is basically similar for a large part of it (it diverges towards the end), it is tailored more towards entirely runnable examples.

I think these two different documents should serve complementary purposes. For more info, see the PR.

MailChimp just sent me this (for the TWiR account). :blush:

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TWiR now has >1000 subscribers (1018 atm)! We are growing at a rate of ~138 subscribers/month, and we have a very high "email open" rate (~65%) compared to industry average (16.74%)!

Thanks @llogiq, @brson, and @cmr for all the help!

I have a few more ideas to make this more awesome, which I'll be discussing in next couple of days.

Cheers! :beers:

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Wow! Cool news @nasa42. Thanks for TWiR!