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# Survey questions

One of the responsibilities of the [leadership council](https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/leadership-council),
formed by [RFC 3392](https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3392-leadership-council.html),
is to solicit feedback on a yearly basis from the Project on how we are performing
our duties.

> Each year, the Council must solicit feedback on whether the Council is
> serving its purpose effectively from all willing and able Project members and
> openly discuss this feedback in a forum that allows and encourages active
> participation from all Project members. To do so, the Council and other
> Project members consult the high-level duties, expectations, and constraints
> listed in this RFC and any subsequent revisions thereof to determine if the
> Council is meeting its duties and obligations.
This is a quick annual survey for Rust-lang project members to provide feedback
on the Leadership Council. Your feedback is appreciated to help steer the
Council activities. As always, if you have specific questions or feedback that
you would like to provide, feel free to reach out to any Council member with
questions.

This survey is anonymous. The Council will go through all answers and release a
summary after the survey is complete, similar to the one published
[last year](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/08/26/council-survey/).

## Who are you?

These questions will help us determine if there's differences in how we're
doing across areas of the project.

### Do you consider yourself a member of the Rust Project?

Type: select one (required)

- Yes
- No

### What teams/areas of the project do you regularly participate in?

Note that these are the top-level teams for lack of better project "areas".

Type: select one or more (optional)

- Compiler
- Dev Tools
- Launching Pad
- Library
- Infrastructure
- Moderation
- Language

## Leadership Council Effectiveness

For each of the key [duties] outlined in RFC 3392 (quoted below), we'd like your
input on how well the Council is performing against that duty.

You may want to (re)read the last ~year of regular updates from the Council to help build context:

* [2024 Q3](https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2024/09/06/leadership-council-update/)
* [2024 Q4](https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2024/12/09/leadership-council-update/)
* [2025 Q1](https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2025/03/17/leadership-council-update/)
* [2025 Q2](https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2025/06/11/leadership-council-update/)

See also our [spending/budget](https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/blob/main/policies/spending/budget.md).

[duties]: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3392-leadership-council.html#duties-expectations-and-constraints-on-the-council


### Tracking and delegating work

> Identifying, prioritizing, and tracking work that goes undone due to lack of
> clear ownership (and not due to the owners’ explicit de-prioritization,
> placement in a backlog, etc.).
>
> Delegating this work, potentially establishing new (and possibly temporary)
> teams to own this work.
Type: select one (optional)

- Strongly Agree
- Agree
- Unsure
- Disagree
- Strongly Disagree
- Not enough information to comment.

### Project-wide coordination

> Coordinating Project-wide changes to teams, structures, or processes.
Type: select one (optional)

- Strongly Agree
- Agree
- Unsure
- Disagree
- Strongly Disagree
- Not enough information to comment.

### Accountability

> Ensuring top-level teams are accountable to their purviews, to other teams,
> and to the Project.
Type: select one (optional)

- Strongly Agree
- Agree
- Unsure
- Disagree
- Strongly Disagree
- Not enough information to comment.

### Providing resources for teams

> Ensuring where possible that teams have the people and resources they need to
> accomplish their work.
Type: select one (optional)

- Strongly Agree
- Agree
- Unsure
- Disagree
- Strongly Disagree
- Not enough information to comment.

### Taking official positions

> Establishing the official position, opinion, or will of the Rust Project as a
> whole.
Type: select one (optional)

- Strongly Agree
- Agree
- Unsure
- Disagree
- Strongly Disagree
- Not enough information to comment.

### Accessibility of council members

Do you feel that if you needed to, you could reach out to the Council as a whole or your particular
Council representative? This includes both knowing who to contact and your
feeling that your perspective would be heard.

Type: select one (optional)

- Strongly Agree
- Agree
- Unsure
- Disagree
- Strongly Disagree
- Not enough information to comment.


### Are there areas of the Leadership Council that you think are going well?

Type: free text (optional)

### Are there areas of the Leadership Council that you think could be improved or efforts that should be prioritized?

Type: free text (optional)