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path = "9999/12/31/the-incoming-summer-of-clippy" | ||
title = "The incoming Summer of Clippy" | ||
authors = ["blyxyas"] | ||
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team = "the Clippy team" | ||
team_url = "https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/dev-tools#team-clippy" | ||
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The Clippy project will be on feature-freeze for 12 weeks, starting from Rust | ||
1.89.0 beta (June 26th 2025) to September 18th 2025 (Rust 1.89.0 stable | ||
release). During this time no new features will be accepted, only bug fixes. | ||
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This *summer of Clippy* comes from a lack of the necessary capacity needed | ||
to maintain all the current lints (about 750 of them 😱) and still add new ones. | ||
We need to care for the Clippy project the same way that Clippy cares about our | ||
code, and note that every single one of them needs maintaining and accounting | ||
for current and future changes in the compiler as a whole. | ||
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As a team we’ll focus on making contributing the best it can be, and mark the | ||
issues that could be great as a starting point to get familiar with the project. | ||
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## What can I expect as a user? | ||
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As a user you can expect to have more accurate lints, with less false negatives | ||
and more edge cases covered. A bump into Clippy’s toolchain would not involve | ||
the same risk for false positives as it has been until now. We hope that by | ||
upping the standard for lints all around the project we can allow users to | ||
expect even more from the already great linter. | ||
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If you have a lint which you want to be implemented, you can still open an | ||
issue for it, but no one will implement it (also, lint-adding pull requests | ||
opened after the starting date will be blocked for the duration of the period). | ||
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Note that pull requests opened before the starting date can still be reviewed | ||
and merged, but unless they are already in a very advanced state they will not | ||
be prioritized over bugfixes. | ||
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## Can I help? | ||
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As always, any help on the project is very appreciated. Apart from opening bug | ||
reports, you can follow [our contributing guidelines] and check [our suggested | ||
good first issues] for opening pull requests . Everything from fixing diagnostic | ||
issues and improving documentation, to fixing application-wide crashes | ||
really helps Clippy get into the excellent state that our users deserve. | ||
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If you need direct help when fixing a bug, don't hesitate to open a thread on | ||
Zulip, or to open the PR with the questions you have in order to start the | ||
feedback stream. | ||
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## Conclusion | ||
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Thanks a lot for all these years of supporting Clippy, we hope that via this | ||
little feature hiatus we can achieve the excellence that the Rust user base | ||
deserves (if that's even possible). | ||
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[our contributing guidelines]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md | ||
[our suggested good first issues]: <!-- ADD HERE OUR TRACKING ISSUE --> | ||
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That was quick! I don't have time to review the blog post today. But should this go into
content/inside-rust
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I'm not sure, this serves as a half announcement to overall the Rust community (they won't be getting new features for a while) and also to the contributors, as they now have distinct goals to aim to. (That tracking issue)
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I don't think it will be really noticable to non-contributors, if there aren't any new lints for 2 releases. And the ones that do notice, will probably find this blog post, even when published in internal-rust
The internal-rust blog is for the contributors.