--- title: Scaling Bevy Development | daily.dev description: Bevy, the popular Rust game engine, is restructuring its governance to scale development beyond its founder-centric model. A new Subject Matter Expert (SME)... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-bevy-development-8b9joudbi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Scaling Bevy Development | daily.dev og:description: Bevy, the popular Rust game engine, is restructuring its governance to scale development beyond its founder-centric model. A new Subject Matter Expert (SME)... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-bevy-development-8b9joudbi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8b9jOudBI.png og:image:alt: Scaling Bevy Development og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Scaling Bevy Development **[Bevy Engine](https://daily.dev/sources/bevy)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Bevy, the popular Rust game engine, is restructuring its governance to scale development beyond its founder-centric model. A new Subject Matter Expert (SME) role lets recognized technical experts vote on controversial pull requests within their domain (Rendering, ECS, Reflection, Animation), with two SME approvals now sufficient to merge a change without the Project Lead. James Liu joins as a new Maintainer, and a new Bevy Organization document and public People page formalize roles and community structure. The post also previews upcoming Bevy 0.10 features including a stageless ECS scheduler, depth/normal prepass, SSAO, asset preprocessing, and windows-as-entities. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the Subject Matter Expert (SME) role in the Bevy game engine project? Subject Matter Experts are Bevy contributors who have demonstrated technical expertise and aligned vision within a specific subject area such as Rendering, ECS, Reflection, or Animation. If two SMEs in the same subject area approve a controversial pull request, a maintainer can merge it without requiring the Project Lead's direct approval, though the Project Lead retains final veto power. _Track how open source projects like Bevy evolve their contribution and review processes on daily.dev._ ### Who are the initial Subject Matter Experts named in the Bevy project's new governance structure? The first SMEs cover four subject areas: Rendering (Rob Swain and Rob Macdonald), ECS (Boxy, James Liu, and Joy), Reflection (Gino Valente and Jakob Hellermann), and Animation (James Liu and François Mockers). James Liu was also named a new Maintainer alongside holding SME status in ECS and Animation. _Developers evaluating engine maturity can follow Bevy's contributor structure updates on daily.dev._ ### What major features are planned for Bevy 0.10? Bevy 0.10, expected about a month after the announcement, plans a rebuilt stageless ECS scheduler removing the need for stages, a depth and normal prepass for rendering, screen space ambient occlusion built on that prepass, a reworked asset preprocessing system, windows represented as ECS entities instead of resources, and a split of the monolithic UI style type into smaller pieces. _Game developers planning engine upgrades can track Bevy release changes on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Bevy 0.19](https://daily.dev/posts/bevy-0-19-sk3tvicux) · Lobsters · 19 upvotes · 2 comments - [Bevy's Sixth Birthday](https://daily.dev/posts/bevy-s-sixth-birthday-bb5mw85zl) · Lobsters · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Tainted Coders](https://daily.dev/posts/tainted-coders-uszkmxkzh) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-bevy-development-8b9joudbi) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Scaling Bevy Development","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-bevy-development-8b9joudbi","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/scaling-bevy-development-8b9joudbi"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:22:24.087Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:53:52.092Z","description":"Bevy, the popular Rust game engine, is restructuring its governance to scale development beyond its founder-centric model. 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