Rust Forge

This site contains supplementary documentation useful to the members of The Rust Project. To edit it submit PRs against rust-lang-nursery/rust-forge.

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Interested in hacking the compiler?

• The rustc-guide is a book about how rustc works
• The rustc API docs are hosted here
• Profile queries. Tips for tracking what the compiler does.
• Rustc bug fix procedure: Describes the process for bug fixes that may cause existing code to stop compiling.
• So you want to implement a feature?: Describes the procedure for implementing new features in rustc.

Interested in infrastructure and the release process?

• The current PR testing queue
• The PR queue over time
• Toolstate (rls, rustfmt, clippy)
• Release history. Links to previous release artifacts.
• Platform support.
• Release process. How to make releases of Rust.
• How to prepare Rust release notes.
• Beta backporting. The mystery of the oft-misinterpreted beta-nominated / beta-accepted tags finally revealed.
• Bots, websites and infrastructure. A catalog of the IRC bots, websites and other infrastructure used by the project, what they do, and who maintains them (i.e. who to contact when they malfunction and go on a bot rampage).
• Homu/Bors Syntax
• State Of Rust. Links and information about the current status of unstable features.
• rustup-toolchain-install-master allows installing Rust from master before it even makes it to nightly.

Meta-processes: managing the RFC repo, teams, etc

• RFC merge procedure
• Team maintenance
• Issue & PR Triage Procedure

Other things

• Friend of the Tree archives.
• Bibliography. Research papers and other links to projects that influenced Rust. Papers about Rust.
• Cross compilation resources
• Other Rust Installation Methods