Merge pull request rust-lang#40 from rust-lang/ACP-process

Document the new ACP process

src/SUMMARY.md

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 - [The feature lifecycle](./feature-lifecycle/summary.md)
- - [Landing new features](./feature-lifecycle/new-unstable-features.md)
+ - [API Change Proposals](./feature-lifecycle/api-change-proposals.md)
  - [Using tracking issues](./feature-lifecycle/tracking-issues.md)
  - [Stabilizing features](./feature-lifecycle/stabilization.md)
  - [Deprecating features](./feature-lifecycle/deprecation.md)

src/feature-lifecycle/api-change-proposals.md

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+# API Change Proposals (ACP)
+
+Changes to the standard library's unstable API go through the libs ACP process.
+
+The API Change Proposal process is intended to be a lightweight first step to
+getting new APIs added to the standard library. The goal of this process is to
+make sure proposed API changes have the best chance of success. The ACP process
+accomplishes this by ensuring all changes have had a libs-api team member
+second the proposal indicating that they are optimistic that the proposal will
+pass its eventual FCP and by focusing the initial discussion on the problems
+being solved and concrete motivating examples.
+
+You can create an ACP in the `rust-lang/libs-team` repo using [this issue template](https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/new?assignees=&labels=api-change-proposal%2C+T-libs-api&template=api-change-proposal.md&title=%28My+API+Change+Proposal%29).
+
+Once a t-libs-api team member has reviewed the ACP and judged that it should
+move forward they will second the ACP (via `@rfcbot second`) and initiate an
+ICP (inital comment period). This initial comment period is intended to give
+other stake holders a chance to participate in the initial discussion prior to
+starting the implementation. Once this ICP has completed you should proceed
+with the implementation of your proposal and then move on to the next step of
+the feature lifecycle, creating a tracking issue.