Run the 2025H1 project goal program

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Metadata
Point of contact	@nikomatsakis
Team(s)	leadership-council
Goal document	2025h1/stabilize-project-goal-program

Summary

• Create a goals team for running the project-goals-program
• Run the second round of the Rust project goal program experiment

Tasks and status

• Begin soliciting goals in Nov 2024 (@nikomatsakis)
• Approve goal slate for 2025h1 ()
• Top-level Rust blog post for 2025h1 goals (@nikomatsakis)
• Propose team membership (@nikomatsakis)
• Org decision (leadership-council )
• January goal update ()
• February goal update ()
• Author RFC ()
• March goal update ()
• Begin soliciting goals for 2025h2 ()
• April goal update ()
• May goal update ()
• June goal update ()

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This issue is intended for status updates only.

For general questions or comments, please contact the owner(s) directly.

[nikomatsakis]

Update: We are running behind schedule, but we are up and running nonetheless! Bear with us. The goals RFC finished FCP on Feb 18. The new project goals team has been approved and we've updated the tracking issues for the new milestone.

Project goal owners are encouraged to update the issue body to reflect the actual tasks as they go with github checkboxes or other notation as described here. We're going to start pinging for our first status update soon!

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Update: February goal update has been posted. We made significant revisions to the way that goal updates are prepared. If you are a goal owner, it's worth reading the directions for how to report your status, especially the part about help wanted and summary comments.

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Update: We sent out the first round of pings for the March update. The plan is to create the document on March 25th, so @rust-lang/goal-owners please get your updates in by then. Note that you can create a TL;DR comment if you want to add 2-3 bullet points that will be embedded directly into the final blog post.

In terms of goal planning:

• @nandsh is planning to do a detailed retrospective on the goals program in conjunction with her research at CMU. Please reach out to her on Zulip (Nandini) if you are interested in participating.
• We are planning to overhaul the ping process as described in this hackmd. In short, pings will come on the 2nd/3rd Monday of the month. No pings will be sent if you've posted a comment that month. The blog post will be prepared on the 3rd Friday.
• We've been discussing how to structure 2025H2 goals and are thinking of making a few changes. We'll break out three categories of goals (Flagship / Core / Stretch), with "Core" goals being those deemed most important. We'll also have a 'pre-read' before the RFC opens with team leads to look for cross-team collaborative opportunities. At least that's the current plan.