GitVibes daily briefing · 2026-09-26 · systems
Announcing a Maintainer in Residence: Scott Schafer for the Cargo team
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At the end of August, we announced our first Maintainers in Residence, Rust Project contributors who are funded for their upstream contributions and maintenance work from the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (RFMF). Since then, the Rust Leadership Council has dedicated more funds from its Project Priorities budget to RFMF, and together with AWS also…
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Original reporting: Rust Blog · Published 2026-09-22