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+The Release team is pleased to announce the **triage working group**, which
+will assume responsibility for triaging issues and pull requests in the
+[rust-lang](https://github.com/rust-lang) repositories as well as for
+diagnosing failures in Crater runs.
+
+Triaging is a high-impact activity that requires a relatively small time
+commitment.  It also does not require reading or writing code.  The goal of
+triage is to prevent issues and pull requests from being ignored by the Rust
+team or forgotten by the contributors who submit them, and to ensure that
+everyone involved in the process knows what the next step is in the process
+toward resolving an issue or merging a pull request. In a large project like
+Rust, keeping up with community contributions is one of the main difficulties
+when scaling up development efforts, so the triage WG's efforts will alleviate
+a key pain point in Rust's growth.
+
+If you're interested in becomoing a triage WG member, please leave a message in
+the #triage-wg channel on the [rust-lang
+Discord][https://discord.gg/rust-lang]!
+
+For more information, please see [the charter for the new
+group](https://github.com/rust-lang/release-team/blob/master/charters/triage-wg.md).
+