Merge pull request #1613 from blyxyas/incoming-summer-of-clippy

Add "Announcing Clippy feature freeze post

Author: Manishearth

content/inside-rust/announcing-the-clippy-feature-freeze.md

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
++++
+path = "inside-rust/2025/06/21/announcing-the-clippy-feature-freeze"
+title = "Announcing the Clippy feature freeze"
+authors = ["blyxyas"]
+
+[extra]
+team = "the Clippy team"
+team_url = "https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/dev-tools#team-clippy"
++++
+
+The Clippy project will be on feature-freeze for 12 weeks, starting from Rust
+1.89.0 beta (June 26th 2025) to September 18th 2025 (Rust 1.89.0 stable
+release). During this time no new features will be accepted, only bug fixes.
+
+This *feature freeze* comes from a lack of the necessary capacity needed
+to maintain all the current lints (over 750 of them 😱) and still add new ones.
+We need to care for the Clippy project the same way that Clippy cares about our
+code, and note that every single one of them needs maintaining and accounting
+for current and future changes in the compiler as a whole.
+
+As a team we’ll focus on making contributing the best it can be, and mark the
+issues that could be great as a starting point to get familiar with the project.
+
+## What can I expect as a user?
+
+As a user you can expect to have more accurate lints, with less false positives
+and more edge cases covered. A bump into Clippy’s toolchain would not involve
+the same risk for false positives as it has been until now. We hope that by
+upping the standard for lints all around the project we can allow users to
+expect even more from the already great linter.
+
+If you have a lint which you want to be implemented, you can still open an
+issue for it, but PRs adding new lints won't be reviewed during the feature
+freeze. Instead, they will be put into a queue and reviewed (and merged) after
+the feature freeze is over.
+
+> Open pull requests that add new lints and are in a **very** advanced state
+> might still get reviewed and/or merged during the feature freeze.
+
+## Can I help?
+
+As always, any help on the project is very appreciated. Apart from opening bug
+reports, you can follow [our contributing guidelines] and check [our suggested
+good first issues] for opening pull requests. Everything from fixing diagnostic
+issues and improving documentation, to fixing application-wide crashes
+really helps Clippy get into the excellent state that our users deserve.
+
+If you need direct help when fixing a bug, don't hesitate to open a thread on
+[Zulip] and/or open a draft PR with the questions you have in order to start
+the feedback stream.
+
+## Conclusion
+
+Thanks a lot for all these years of supporting Clippy, we hope that via this
+little feature hiatus we can achieve the excellence that the Rust user base
+deserves. 
+
+[our contributing guidelines]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
+[our suggested good first issues]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/15086
+[Zulip]: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/257328-clippy
+