Nominate Mengqing Cao as vllm-ascend maintainer (#2433)
I would like to nominate Mengqing Cao (@MengqingCao
https://github.com/MengqingCao) as a maintainer, starting with my +1.
## Reason
Review Quality: She has completed [120+
reviews](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+commenter%3Amengqingcao+-author%3Amengqingcao)
since Feb. 2025, include
[#review-3077842852](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/2088#pullrequestreview-3077842852),
[comment-2990074116](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/1032#issuecomment-2990074116),
[comment-2921063723](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/1013#issuecomment-2921063723)
high quality review.
Sustained and Quality Contributions: She has Deep understanding of
vLLM and vLLM Ascend codebases and solid contributions include The
vLLM contributions and help vLLM Ascend release is the main reason I
nominated her:
- vLLM: Things worth mentioning that she completed [28+ PR
contributions](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AMengqingCao+is%3Amerged+)
in vllm-project/vllm, especially for vLLM platform module to improve
vLLM mult hardware support. She is one of the important co-authors of
[vllm#8054](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/8054) and hardware
plugin RFC, this makes vllm-ascend plugin possible.
Community Involvement: She is also very active and involved in [60+
issues](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20-author%3AMengqingCao%20commenter%3AMengqingCao).
So I think she's a great addition to the vLLM Ascend Maintainer team.
- ✅**Review Quality:**
She has completed 120+ reviews since Feb. 2025.
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+commenter%3Amengqingcao+-author%3Amengqingcao,
include
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/2088#pullrequestreview-3077842852,
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/1446#issuecomment-3015166908,
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/1032#issuecomment-2990074116,
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/1013#issuecomment-2921063723
quality review.
- ✅**Sustained Contributions:**
99+ PR merged in vllm-project/vllm-ascend
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AMengqingCao+is%3Amerged
- ✅**Quality Contribution:**
She is one of the important co-authors of
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/8054 , this makes vllm-ascend
plugin possible.
Things worth mentioning that she complete 28+ PR contributions in
vllm-project/vllm, especially for vLLM platform module to improve vLLM
mult hardware support:
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AMengqingCao+is%3Amerged+.
At 2025 Q2, She also lead the [[RFC]: E2E CI test for key
features](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/413) and
[[RFC]: Unit test coverage
improvement](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/1298) to
help vllm ascend improve the coverage.
Her main contributions focus on the adaptation of parallel strategies
and communicator, such as
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/1800,
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/1856.
These contributions are sufficient to prove she has “Deep understanding
of vLLM and vLLM Ascend codebases”
- ✅**Community Involvement:**
Involved in 63+ issue reviewer
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20-author%3AMengqingCao%20commenter%3AMengqingCao
She led the v0.10.1 release as release manager
- vLLM version: v0.10.0
- vLLM main:
78dba404ad
Signed-off-by: Jade Zheng <zheng.shoujian@outlook.com>
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