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+layout: post
+title: Rust Compiler April Steering Cycle
+author: Felix Klock
+description: "The compiler team's April steering cycle"
+team: The Compiler Team <https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/compiler>
+---
+
+On [Friday, April 9th][apr-9-zulip-archive], the Rust Compiler team had a planning meeting for the April steering cycle.
+
+[apr-9-zulip-archive]: https://zulip-archive.rust-lang.org/238009tcompilermeetings/96901planningmeeting20210409.html
+
+Every fourth Friday, the Rust compiler team decides how
+it is going to use its scheduled steering and design meeting time over the next
+three Fridays.
+
+On Friday, 23 April 2021, we will be having a meeting to discuss a
+set of proposed [guiding principles][] for compiler contributors.
+
+[guiding principles]: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/424
+
+On Friday, 30 April 2021, we will be having a meeting to discuss the
+process used for weekly compiler [performance triage][].
+
+[performance triage]: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/400
+
+Both meetings will run from 2pm to 3pm GMT, and will take place on the
+[T-compiler/meetings zulip stream][zulip].
+
+[zulip]: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/238009-t-compiler.2Fmeetings
+
+(Also: we neglected to post an announcement at the outset of the March steering
+cycle. In March we had two meetings: the first was a [retrospective][] on the
+memshrink development sprint that we had over the first week of March, and the
+second was a meeting to [discuss][musl-discussion] the static vs dynamic linking
+defaults for our musl libc targets.)
+
+[retrospective]: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/412
+
+[musl-discussion]: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/416