Shuffle fundable people on the server

Author: Kobzol

Cargo.lock

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ serde_json = "1.0"
 rust_team_data = { git = "https://github.com/rust-lang/team" }
 percent-encoding = "2.3.2"
 rayon = "1"
+rand = "0.9"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 time = { version = "0.3.44", features = ["parsing"] }

Cargo.toml

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use crate::{BaseUrl, ENGLISH, LAYOUT};
 use anyhow::Context;
 use handlebars::Handlebars;
 use handlebars_fluent::{Loader, SimpleLoader};
+use rand::seq::SliceRandom;
 use rayon::iter::IntoParallelRefIterator;
 use rayon::iter::ParallelIterator;
 use serde::Serialize;
@@ -269,7 +270,14 @@ pub fn render_funding(
     render_ctx: &RenderCtx,
     all_team_members: &AllTeamMembers,
 ) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-    let data = render_ctx.teams.funding_data(all_team_members);
+    let mut data = render_ctx.teams.funding_data(all_team_members);
+
+    // To reduce unnecessary ordering bias, we shuffle the list of fundable people.
+    // While we also shuffle on the client (frontend), this does not work for people
+    // with JavaScript enabled. And since the website is rebuilt regularly every day,
+    // this ensures that even the baseline version of the page without client-side
+    // shuffling will not always be the same.
+    data.people.shuffle(&mut rand::rng());
 
     // Index page
     for_all_langs("funding/index.html", |dst_path, lang| {

src/render.rs

@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ pub struct FundablePerson {
 
 #[derive(Serialize)]
 pub struct FundingData {
-    people: Vec<FundablePerson>,
+    pub people: Vec<FundablePerson>,
 }
 
 pub fn load_rust_teams() -> anyhow::Result<RustTeamData> {