--- title: Together for a healthier Clippy | daily.dev description: The Clippy team is addressing a reviewing capacity problem caused by lack of funding and maintainer burnout. To help contributors get their PRs reviewed... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/together-for-a-healthier-clippy-4mnxaqbt3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Together for a healthier Clippy | daily.dev og:description: The Clippy team is addressing a reviewing capacity problem caused by lack of funding and maintainer burnout. To help contributors get their PRs reviewed... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/together-for-a-healthier-clippy-4mnxaqbt3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4MnXaqbt3.png og:image:alt: Together for a healthier Clippy 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. # Together for a healthier Clippy **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 3 min read · 7 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The Clippy team is addressing a reviewing capacity problem caused by lack of funding and maintainer burnout. To help contributors get their PRs reviewed faster, they are launching a peer-review initiative: when a contributor opens a PR, a bot prompts them to review another open PR. Contributors who do so get priority review from the team. The post also mentions hope that the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund will help secure funding for Clippy maintainers, and credits the Bevy project's 'Open Code Review' system as inspiration. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why is Clippy launching a new contributor review initiative? Clippy has a reviewing capacity problem because no team member is currently funded to work on it, even part-time, leaving maintenance to unpaid free time and risking burnout. To help, contributors who open a pull request are now prompted by the @rustbot bot to review another open pull request, earning priority review on their own submission in return, inspired by the Bevy project's Open Code Review system. _Anyone tracking how open source teams tackle reviewer burnout can follow initiatives like this on daily.dev._ ### How does Clippy's rustbot pull request review prompt work? After a contributor opens a pull request, the @rustbot bot prompts them to review another contributor's pull request, preferably one without existing reviews. Once they complete a review, they get added to a special list that grants priority attention from the Clippy team's own reviewers, helping distribute the review workload across the contributor community rather than relying solely on core maintainers. _Developers weighing how to contribute effectively to Rust tooling can keep up with process changes like this via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [What we learned with Clippy's feature freeze](https://daily.dev/posts/what-we-learned-with-clippy-s-feature-freeze-g7azzckzv) · Inside Rust Blog · 17 upvotes · 1 comments - [Your vibe coded slop PR is not welcome](https://daily.dev/posts/your-vibe-coded-slop-pr-is-not-welcome-c8ehwuqtr) · Hacker News · 36 upvotes · 1 comments - [Just fix their PR](https://daily.dev/posts/just-fix-their-pr-i17xs0i7w) · swizec.com · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust), [#code-review](https://daily.dev/tags/code-review) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/together-for-a-healthier-clippy-4mnxaqbt3) ```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":"Together for a healthier Clippy","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/together-for-a-healthier-clippy-4mnxaqbt3","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/together-for-a-healthier-clippy-4mnxaqbt3"},"datePublished":"2026-07-07T11:59:23.838Z","dateModified":"2026-10-15T02:22:35.484Z","description":"The Clippy team is addressing a reviewing capacity problem caused by lack of funding and maintainer burnout. 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