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+title: "Please welcome The 8472 and Ashley Mannix to Library Contributors"
+author: Mara Bos
+description: "Please welcome The 8472 and Ashley Mannix to Library Contributors"
+team: the library team <https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/library>
+---
+
+Please welcome The 8472 and Ashley Mannix to the
+[Library Contributors](https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/library#libs-contributors) group!
+
+[The 8472](https://github.com/the8472) has been working on
+[various](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/70793)
+[specializations](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/75272)
+[in the](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/78641)
+[standard library](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/83245),
+and has been involved in many library-related changes and discussions.
+
+[Ashley Mannix](https://github.com/KodrAus/) maintains
+[several popular Rust crates](https://crates.io/users/KodrAus?sort=downloads)
+and used to be a part of the Library (API) Team.
+Ashley is now getting back into Rust open source work,
+and will be helping out with maintenance of the standard library
+and some official `rust-lang` crates such as [`log`](https://crates.io/crates/log).
+
+Congratulations The 8472 and Ashley, and thanks for everything you do!