TWiR Friends of the forest

@KiChjang (Keith Yeung) brings a lot to Rust. Yeah he's a prominent Servo
contributor
, as well as Rust, but the thing that I admire
most is his dedication to community building.

It is historically difficult for the Rust team to understand the needs
of of non-English-speaking Rust communities. @KiChjang though is in
tune with the Chinese Rust community, sees that this is a problem, and
is actively working to bridge that gap by participating in both
communities, looking out for needs and opportunties, and relaying them.

This is a powerful idea, and an important role, and I'm hopeful it
will bear fruit. Already I'm feeling a fire to ensure that Chinese
Rustaceans are well-represented in the Rust project, and am
considering the importance of representing Rust well at conferences in
China.

Thanks a bunch @KiChjang!

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Love @KiChjang

It just blows my mind the way Rust comes together out of chaos, the
way every contributor who touches it leaves a little bit of themselves
in Rust. And the influence of Guillaume Gomez (aka imperio, aka
@GuillaumeGomez) is evident everywhere you look in Rust.

Guillaume appeared on the Rust scene in 2015 like a whirlwind,
identifying an area of the project in need of help - documentation -
and dedicating himself to raising the quality levels in every way he
could. That's how you make a niche for yourself in a project, and
today Guillaume is a member of the docs team, and recognized as
one of the prime motivators of Rust documentation
improvements.

He has done so much, I'm going to miss a lot of it. But here goes.

He has made 600 commits to rust-lang/rust. By GitHub's
accounting
that puts him at #15 on the contributor list.

In his time on Rust he has maintained This Week in Rust
Docs
, a thankless but important service to the Rust community.

He has been the main driver behind the system of extended
diagnostics
in the compiler, the campaign to improve the error
handling ui
, and for the improved handling of error codes
generally.

He is one of the few people who has been driven to make significant
improvements to rustdoc over the years, often overcoming major
technical and social challenges to do so, such as in this excellent
improvement to the debuggability of rustdoc test output
, this
improvement to rustdoc's customization
, the replacement of
hoedown with pulldown-cmark
, and teaching rustdoc about
"compile-fail"
.

But that's not all.

Guillaume is also the major force behind gtk-rs, the Rust bindings
to GTK+. And with his GTK+ expertise, he has acted as liason between the
Rust communities and the GNOME communities, graciously attending a
hackfest earlier this year to help advance the state of GNOME/Rust
integration.

Seriously, Guillaume is a tireless Rust advocate, and the advancements
he has made to Rust are pretty stunning. Buy this man a beer.

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Wo, thanks a lot!

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I believe what Brson is trying to say, and with which I wholeheartedly agree, is "No, thank you a lot!" :wink:
Back when I was an absolute newcomer to rust (as opposed to the still-mostly-new I consider myself today), the incredible documentation and helpful compiler messages really made a difference for me. Also, I'm an avid gnome user.
Thanks for making my life/our lives a more pleasant experience!

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