{
  "title": "Historical meeting notes: effort is not a promised result",
  "source_commit": "6cf981d16c1852074b397eee544adc3d1a7eb6b6",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-03T22:06:29Z",
  "attribution": "Excerpts from Rust compiler-team steering-meeting minutes, by the Rust compiler-team contributors. Repository MIT permission notice is included unchanged. No affiliation, endorsement or current assignment is implied. The upstream README reports that its website was retired in April 2025; these are historical repository documents, not current team policy.",
  "adaptation": "Each quote is an exact contiguous Markdown excerpt from a pinned source file. N1 labels, source metadata, task policy, expected fields, responses and review notes are PromptKB agent additions. Evaluate the excerpt at its stated historical meeting time, not as a claim about work still outstanding today. Linked discussions are outside this exercise and were not used to fill gaps. The six selections are not the complete meetings, a representative dataset or independently reviewed ground truth.",
  "license": "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any\nperson obtaining a copy of this software and associated\ndocumentation files (the \"Software\"), to deal in the\nSoftware without restriction, including without\nlimitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,\npublish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of\nthe Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software\nis furnished to do so, subject to the following\nconditions:\n\nThe above copyright notice and this permission notice\nshall be included in all copies or substantial portions\nof the Software.\n\nTHE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED \"AS IS\", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF\nANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED\nTO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A\nPARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT\nSHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY\nCLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION\nOF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR\nIN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER\nDEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.\n",
  "policy_refinement": "Historical-source scope: evaluate what is explicitly open in the excerpt at the time of that meeting, not what remains open today. Do not use a linked discussion or today's date to fill gaps. A commitment to try promises effort, not successful completion: preserve that qualification. Explicit commitments by several individually named people are separate actions and may share the same source_id. A collective plan explicitly adopted in the supplied context can be an action, but a collective pronoun does not establish a named owner. Preserve a stated start date in the task; it is not a due date unless the note also states a deadline. A general request to read, a wish for a guide or a suggestion to collect a list is not an accepted assignment. Source metadata and license notices are not meeting notes.",
  "cases": [
    {
      "id": "R01",
      "name": "Commitment to try, not to deliver",
      "meeting_date": "2019-03-01",
      "source_url": "https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/blob/6cf981d16c1852074b397eee544adc3d1a7eb6b6/content/minutes/steering-meeting/2019-03-01.md",
      "source_path": "content/minutes/steering-meeting/2019-03-01.md",
      "source_sha256": "59699df06c78d0147e02851520187ee279393b70003ec6429df96120b6dc70b3",
      "quote": "The meeting commenced with a call for involvement in the [RLS 2.0 working group][rls2] led by\n[@matklad][matklad] as sharing expertise between the RLS 2.0 effort and rustc would be helpful.\nThere is documentation (videos and guides), issues with `E-mentor` and other resources available\nfor those interested. [@davidtwco][davidtwco], [@pnkfelix][pnkfelix] and [@Xanewok][Xanewok]\nmentioned that they would endeavour to find some time to dig into RLS 2.0.",
      "context": null
    },
    {
      "id": "R02",
      "name": "Wanting a guide does not assign its authors",
      "meeting_date": "2019-03-01",
      "source_url": "https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/blob/6cf981d16c1852074b397eee544adc3d1a7eb6b6/content/minutes/steering-meeting/2019-03-01.md",
      "source_path": "content/minutes/steering-meeting/2019-03-01.md",
      "source_sha256": "59699df06c78d0147e02851520187ee279393b70003ec6429df96120b6dc70b3",
      "quote": "Both [@nikomatsakis][nikomatsakis] and [@mw][mw] wanted there to be a simple guide to follow for\ncreating out-of-tree crates - this should include links to examples and things to copy-and-paste.",
      "context": null
    },
    {
      "id": "R03",
      "name": "Suggested inventory is not an accepted assignment",
      "meeting_date": "2019-03-01",
      "source_url": "https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/blob/6cf981d16c1852074b397eee544adc3d1a7eb6b6/content/minutes/steering-meeting/2019-03-01.md",
      "source_path": "content/minutes/steering-meeting/2019-03-01.md",
      "source_sha256": "59699df06c78d0147e02851520187ee279393b70003ec6429df96120b6dc70b3",
      "quote": "[@davidtwco][davidtwco] suggested that we would need to collate a list of things that would need to\nbe added to a repository (licenses, code of conduct, etc.) and things that would need set up (bors,\nhighfive, etc).",
      "context": null
    },
    {
      "id": "R04",
      "name": "A working branch is reported progress",
      "meeting_date": "2019-03-22",
      "source_url": "https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/blob/6cf981d16c1852074b397eee544adc3d1a7eb6b6/content/minutes/steering-meeting/2019-03-22.md",
      "source_path": "content/minutes/steering-meeting/2019-03-22.md",
      "source_sha256": "aff8ded7a6882eba6c4d2ed67cd01caa2ddda009fb5c14b23e6e47681d247bbf",
      "quote": "- [davidtwco](https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/131828-t-compiler/topic/steering.20meeting.202019.2E03.2E22.20.2358850/near/161450922)\n  has, [after numerous attempts](https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/131828-t-compiler/topic/steering.20meeting.202019.2E03.2E22.20.2358850/near/161451008), managed to produce a have a working branch\n  that unblocks RFC 2008.",
      "context": null
    },
    {
      "id": "R05",
      "name": "A collective rollout plan has a start date, not a due date",
      "meeting_date": "2019-04-12",
      "source_url": "https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/blob/6cf981d16c1852074b397eee544adc3d1a7eb6b6/content/minutes/steering-meeting/2019-04-12.md",
      "source_path": "content/minutes/steering-meeting/2019-04-12.md",
      "source_sha256": "42b19cd84a55e920c9da30a6cf2a28abb96d9c39c5b8c6351dc9674b03ed23a7",
      "quote": "[We plan to flesh out some more details and put this idea into action\nstarting May 3rd (the next steering meeting).](https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/131828-t-compiler/topic/steering.20meeting.202019.2E04.2E12.20.2358850/near/163198505)",
      "context": "While the basic idea of the proposal was popular, we wound up changing\nsome of the details for how it would run. We settled ultimately on\n**reusing the slot for the existing steering meeting** (Friday\nmornings, Boston time) but making it **weekly**."
    },
    {
      "id": "R06",
      "name": "An invitation to read is not confirmed acceptance",
      "meeting_date": "2019-04-12",
      "source_url": "https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/blob/6cf981d16c1852074b397eee544adc3d1a7eb6b6/content/minutes/steering-meeting/2019-04-12.md",
      "source_path": "content/minutes/steering-meeting/2019-04-12.md",
      "source_sha256": "42b19cd84a55e920c9da30a6cf2a28abb96d9c39c5b8c6351dc9674b03ed23a7",
      "quote": "- [nikomatsakis](https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/131828-t-compiler/topic/steering.20meeting.202019.2E04.2E12.20.2358850/near/163192566)\n  has opened a [PR with a draft\n  RFC](https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/pull/52) on the\n  compiler-team repository. This RFC describes adding a new level\n  (\"compiler team contributors\") to recognize people who have been\n  contributing regularly. It also tries to document a few things about\n  members etc. Please give it a read!",
      "context": null
    }
  ]
}