PSA: Movement of rust-lang crates

[steveklabnik]

I’ve already said previously that I’d adopt semver, if that’s still cool.

[stebalien]

I’m willing to maintain (but am unlikely to improve) the term crate if nobody else wants it (although you’d probably be a better maintainer as you wrote almost all of the code).

[hauleth]

I could take care of num crate as I often find myself in need to use that (and if there is no one who want to do so).

[cuviper]

I also use num, and am willing to co-maintain if you like.

[alexcrichton]

Thanks for volunteering! I’m also willing to take over rlibc, and we’ll talk more about transferring the crates in the libs triage meeting this week if we get the chance, so I’ll get back to you!

[hauleth]

That would be great.

[photino]

The numeric traits in num are very useful for playing with generic mathematics, such as Float and Signed. I hope that they could be added in std::num. What is the current status of num-reform RFC?

[steveklabnik]

The num-reform RFC was what led to the creation of the num crate in the first place. It’s still not exactly clear what we want to eventually stabilize.

[aturon]

Right. In particular, the hope was that we could explore various “numeric hierarchies” using traits outside of std for a while. It’s worth remembering that there was a long pre-1.0 history of trying different traits, and we still weren’t in a mature place.

I would really love for some domain experts to lead the charge, here!

[photino]

From my personal experience, we only need six primitive traits (Int, UnsignedInt, Signed, Float, Zero, One) in std::num to cover most use cases. They provide very basic functionalities for generic mathematics. Other numeric hierarchies should left to external crates.

[alexcrichton]

As an update, the libs team didn’t have time to talk about this topic this week in triage, but we’ll be sure to get to it next week!

[alexcrichton]

Alright, we discussed this at the last triage meeting and we’re all good with the transfers, if you want to sync up with me on IRC acrichto I’ll get the crate transferred to you!

[frewsxcv]

I have some interest in maintaining the threadpool crate. We use it for a few projects internally at my job and am fairly familiar with internals.

[alexcrichton]

Thanks for volunteering @frewsxcv! The threadpool crate has now been transferred to you.

[hauleth]

@alexcrichton would you create GH organization for me and @cuviper and move num into it?

[alexcrichton]

@hauleth I’ve replied in a PM, we can discussion off-thread from here

[briansmith]

What’s the status of the num crate? I want to contribute code to it. The crates.io metadata indicates that the transfer hasn’t happened yet.

[huon]

It’s been transfered (FWIW, github will auto-redirect transferred projects, so the github.com/rust-lang/num “Repository” link reported on crates.io will actually get you there).

[cuviper]

We haven’t published any new versions of num yet, but probably should soon. We’re definitely taking contributions though!

[alexcrichton]

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