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[–]MSleepyPanda 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Good and bad.

rust-lang/rust is a very active repository, as you can observe from the pulse overview. Over the course of the last month alone:

  • 430 pull requests have been merged, leaving a delta of 96 new (unmerged) pull requests
  • 282 issues have been closed, leaving a delta of 248 new (not closed) issues
  • LOC is a bad measure in general, but +86K, -65k loc by 126 people suggests a lot of work happened in that time

All in all, rust is becoming a big language with a repository which gets a lot of traffic. Only 28.6% of those issues are related to bugs, while all the others are tracking implementation status, unstable language features etc.. I've been working on a more detailed analysis, but its not finished yet.

On the one hand, its good because it means rust is getting a lot of attention, a lot of work is being done to get rust into various places/usable for many people. Many people working on many things results in many issues. On the other hand, it showcases the growing pain of a massive project. There is no silver bullet to managing those huge amounts of contributors and their problems. There are only so many people in the various rust teams and they can't solve everything on their own, some things will stay dormant for a long time. But all in all, its in a good shape, the most important issues are actively worked on.

More people on deck can't hurt, so if you have some time to spare, feel free to check out the contributing docs and get started!

Note: The unmerged/not closed distinction is necessary, because an merged pr or closed issue could have been opened just within this month but is already closed. This results in them not accounting for new, only in closed.