This sorts of formalizes something that always existed ("communicating with rust users in production", "experience reports", ...etc). And it could be argued that centralizing and publicly documenting these activities is a positive move.

But this argument runs hollow in the presence of this potential start to a bureaucratic behemoth pushing towards a committee-centric model.

Best case scenario: this is just a (side-)gig bureaucratic job for the boys, which will largely be irrelevant as far the Rust project itself goes.

Thankfully, that scenario is not implausible.

Not sure what some of these clueless comments in this thread are about. Maybe stop treating every new news item as a connected next episode in a telenovela of grand conspiracies and big betrayal.