This is really well considered @aturon, and I think does a great job of summarizing sort of what’s “in the air” w/r/t the direction of the Rust project. I’ll have some more detailed thoughts later about each of your suggested problem statements, and maybe propose some slight changes, but I for now I wanted to make a few off-the-cuff observations.

I really like the way you’ve formulated the “problem statements”, as required by the RFC. These are phrased aspirationally, with a positive spin, instead of the negativity implied by “problem statement”. You even call them “vision statements”, which I think works ok.

I’d like to end up with enough direction that it can apply to the entire team structure (except mods), so each team has some sort of mandate and direction. It’s going to be hardest for the docs and community teams, but I’m glad you’ve already got ideas here that serve them, and I hope they will chime in and help identify what they think is important. I’m particularly eyeing “Rust’s community should provide mentoring at all levels” and suspecting that we can do some productive critical thinking about it.

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