Error Handling Project Group

Summary

A group focusing on Rust's error handling story. The group has the following high-level goals:

• Agree on and define common error handling terminology
• Come to a consensus on current best practices
• Identify pain points in error handling today
• Communicate current best practices
• Evaluate options for error reporting type a.k.a. better Box<dyn Error>
• Consolidate ecosystem by merging best practice crates into std
• Add missing features

Info

• Leads: @yaahc, @seanchen1991, @BurntSushi
• Libs-team liaison: @KodrAus
• Charter
• Repository rust-lang/project-error-handling
• Zulip stream #project-error-handling

What is this issue?

This issue represents an active project group. It is meant to be used for
the group to post updates to the libs team (and others) in a lightweight
fashion. Please do not use the comments here for discussion, that should be kept
in the Zulip stream (discussion comments here will be marked as off-topic).

Start with CHARTER.md in the linked project-error-handling repository, then review the project-error-handling Zulip stream for current direction. This issue is a project-group tracker rather than a scoped implementation task; a contribution would need to follow an agreed goal from that group before completion can be defined.