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title: Libs Reviewers Group
tags: [Charters]

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# Libs Reviewers Group

###### tags: `Charters`

## Summary

Establish a Libs Reviewers group as the set of people who can be assigned standard library PRs to review, either automatically by highfive or manually by other project members.

## Motivation

- Clear group membership for reviewers with access to support and other resources.
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## 2021 Charter

| Parent   | Home            | Handle                       |
| -------- | --------------- | ---------------------------- |
| Libs     | `libs-team`     | `@rust-lang/t-libs-reviewers`     |

### How does this group define success?

### What does this group do?

#### Decision maker

#### Accountable

The Libs Reviewers team is the entrypoint for contributions to the standard library. The team is accountable for shepherding contributions to some conclusion through review, escalation, and delegation.

- Implementation work enabling public API features.
- Approving pull requests that don't affect stable APIs or documented guarantees.
    - Accepting new unstable APIs, although this can be re-assigned to Libs on a case-by-case basis.
    - Accepting changes to documentation and examples
- Approving pull requests affecting documentation and examples.
- Escalating decisions affecting public APIs or documented guarantees to Libs.
- Delegating decisions affecting specialized areas to familiar contributors.

#### Responsible

#### Consulted

#### Informed

### How does this group define success?

### How does this group make decisions?

### What is expected of members?

Members should be on the highfive review rotation for the standard library, or have a specific interest area that they can accept re-assignments for.

### Where does this group work?

### Who is the point of contact?
