As a vital component of vLLM, the vLLM Ascend project is dedicated to providing an easy, fast, and cheap LLM Serving for everyone on Ascend NPUs and to actively contribute to the enrichment of vLLM.
vLLM Ascend is an open-source project under the vLLM community, where the authority to appoint roles is ultimately determined by the vLLM community. It adopts a hierarchical technical governance structure.
**Requirements:** Complete at least 1 contribution. A contributor is someone who consistently and actively participates in a project, including but not limited to issue/review/commits/community involvement.
Contributors are granted the `Triage` role in the [vllm-project/vllm-ascend](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend) GitHub repository, which allows them to read and clone the repo, manage issues and PRs, and collaborate efficiently with community developers.
**Responsibility:** Develop the project's vision and mission. Maintainers are responsible for shaping the technical direction of the project and ensuring its long-term success. With code merge permissions, they lead roadmap planning, review community contributions, make ongoing code improvements, and actively participate in community engagement—such as regular meetings and events.
**Requirements:** Deep understanding of vLLM and vLLM Ascend code bases, with a commitment to sustained code contributions and competency in design, development, and PR review workflows.
The approval from existing Maintainers is required. The vLLM community has the final decision-making authority.
Maintainers will be granted write access to the [vllm-project/vllm-ascend](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend) GitHub repo. This includes permission to read, clone, and push to the repository, as well as manage issues and pull requests.
- Membership in vLLM Ascend is given to individuals on a merit basis after they demonstrate their strong expertise in vLLM/vLLM Ascend through contributions, reviews, and discussions.
- Nomination: Anyone can nominate a candidate to become a maintainer, including self-nominations. All existing maintainers are responsible for reviewing and evaluating each nomination. The nominator should provide relevant information about the nominee's qualifications—such as review quality, quality contribution, and community involvement—among other strengths.
- Removal: Anyone may nominate an individual for removal from the maintainer role, including self-nominations. All current maintainers are responsible for reviewing and evaluating such nominations. The nominator should provide relevant information about the nominee—such as prolonged inactivity, misalignment with the project's overall direction, or other factors that may render them unsuitable for the maintainer position.
