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Make README more complete and easier to follow - #2973

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@jyn514 jyn514 commented Aug 17, 2026

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  • Organize by "About" -> "Contributing" -> "Editing" -> "Maintaining" rather than mixing sections
  • Deduplicate a few lines into the guide itself
  • Recommend mdbook serve over mdbook build
  • Document mdbook layout and link to the upstream docs
  • Document sembr and that relative links must use .md extensions
  • Add a section on testing the tools in ci/

Disclosure: I used an LLM to suggest what would be most helpful to put in the README. I wrote all the text myself.

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ah hm, a lot of this is duplicated from https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/contributing.html#contributing-to-rustc-dev-guide, maybe we should just link there.

jyn514 added 2 commits August 17, 2026 09:23
- Organize by "About" -> "Contributing" -> "Editing" -> "Maintaining"
  rather than mixing sections
- Deduplicate a few lines into the guide itself
- Recommend `mdbook serve` over `mdbook build`
- Document `mdbook` layout and link to the upstream docs
- Document sembr and that relative links must use `.md` extensions
- Add a section on testing the tools in `ci/`
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jyn514 force-pushed the reorganize-readme branch from 3b38aa4 to 123c192 Compare August 17, 2026 07:23
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i think this is a clear improvement so i'm just going to merge it.

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jyn514 merged commit b4087f3 into rust-lang:main Aug 21, 2026
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