The Rust compiler team announces a GPU-target notification group for vendor experts helping diagnose GPU backend issues, plus a Linker working area to integrate alternative linkers such as Wild and to field linker questions, with Zulip streams and signup via rust-lang/team.
Announcing the GPU notification group and Linker Working Area
Oct. 20, 2026 · The compiler team
We are announcing two new groups in the compiler team:
The GPU target notification group, for helping us to diagnose and resolve GPU-related issues
The Linker working area, with expertise or interest in linkers
About the GPU-target notification group
The GPU target notification group is made of experts from various vendors (AMD, Nvidia, Intel, etc.) and its goal is to better respond to issues and in general work in this area of expertise, for example this one.
Creating of a linker group was discussed in MCP#964 to kickstart work about integrating alternative linkers in the compiler, like Wild. As the second goal, this group can be a point of contact for handling questions and issues regarding linkers.
What is a "notification group" and a "working area group"?
Notification groups are made of people volunteering to keep an eye and respond to issues in a specific area they have expertise, they mostly help with maintenance.
Working areas explore and do work focused on specific areas with the goal of adding features or improving the compiler.
Each group may have an associated Zulip stream where people can ask questions and discuss topics specific to that target.
Anyone can add their own name to these groups and be notified when an issue in that area is raised. If you are interested in participating, feel free to sign up for these groups. To do so, just open a PR against the rust-lang/team repository (here an example).