Remove my name from the project

[jonas-schievink]

I have already left the Rust team earlier this year. This pull request additionally removes me from the "alumni", and deletes the file tying my usernames together.

I would also like to request that the Rust team strip all authorship information from my commits to the projects in the rust-lang organization.

I no longer want to be associated with the Rust project in any capacity and deeply regret ever getting involved in it.

The Rust project has repeatedly failed its own volunteers, sabotaged community projects, and suppressed public discussion, while its leadership hides behind "concerns" that are never elaborated on and shields the individuals responsible from consequences.

The cowardly handling of the recent RustConf keynote fiasko is merely the most recent example of this, and it is unlikely to be the last, even if the de-jure leadership structure was changed to incorporate the new Leadership Council. The only way to permanently resolve these issues is to oust the people that are responsible for them, or defending those that are, from the Rust project entirely.

I strongly suggest that all volunteers on the Rust team seriously reconsider if this organization is really worth volunteering for.

Additionally, I urge everyone who knows details about the Rust project's failures that have not been made public to ask themselves: do you not think that people who are considering to get involved in Rust deserve to know what they are getting into, without having to go through the same experience first?

[eddyb]

I would also like to request that the Rust team strip all authorship information from my commits to the projects in the rust-lang organization.

(Technical clarification, as a bystander) Does this refer to adding an entry to the mailmap to treat all of your commits as not having authorship information? For better (or worse, which is more common when it comes up like this, sadly), the git commit graph itself is effectively immutable for large enough projects.
_{IIRC there's been proposals for splitting out the authorship information from the actual commit metadata (presumably replacing names+emails with something like UUIDs?), but I haven't heard of any of them getting actually adopted.}

[jonas-schievink]

Whichever removes me from GitHub's "Contributors" list. Unfortunately it is impractical for me to delete my email address from my account, since that would affect every project I've ever contributed to.

[pateljoel]

I would also like to request that the Rust team strip all authorship information from my commits to the projects in the rust-lang organization.

@jonas-schievink Wouldn't doing this commit place your name in the project again? Assuming you're in an EU country (Germany) perhaps a GDPR removal (the right to be forgotten request) may help here although it may be tricky with git.

[CAD97]

Whichever removes me from GitHub's "Contributors" list.

(technical note, as a bystander) As far as I'm aware from a quick search, this isn't possible save for deleting your account or otherwise disassociating your identity from the user/email used to make the commits, or rewriting history to remove your identifier(s) from the commits. I've seen multiple sources that GitHub Contributors doesn't quite respect mailmap and one that it might in an enterprise setting.

Hopefully people using GitHub are aware enough of the difference between "contributor" (has a contribution as defined by licensing included in the project) and "collaborator." The latter is transient and can be changed, whereas the former is effectively permanent (for better or for (likely) worse).

[jhpratt]

Whichever removes me from GitHub's "Contributors" list.

You'll likely have to reach out to GitHub directly for this. I'm not aware of any way for the project to do this aside from rewriting git history, which is unlikely to happen as you might imagine.

FYI: I am putting together a PR for thanks.rust-lang.dev which will remove your name, as that is in our control.

Edit: PR is up: rust-lang/thanks#58

[oli-obk]

Moderator note: I have locked this thread and deleted a few inappropriate messages.