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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>
vLLM Ascend Plugin
| About Ascend | Documentation | #sig-ascend | Users Forum | Weekly Meeting |
English | 中文
Latest News 🔥
- [2025/06] User stories page is now live! It kicks off with LLaMA-Factory/verl//TRL/GPUStack to demonstrate how vLLM Ascend assists Ascend users in enhancing their experience across fine-tuning, evaluation, reinforcement learning (RL), and deployment scenarios.
- [2025/06] Contributors page is now live! All contributions deserve to be recorded, thanks for all contributors.
- [2025/05] We've released first official version v0.7.3! We collaborated with the vLLM community to publish a blog post sharing our practice: Introducing vLLM Hardware Plugin, Best Practice from Ascend NPU.
- [2025/03] We hosted the vLLM Beijing Meetup with vLLM team! Please find the meetup slides here.
- [2025/02] vLLM community officially created vllm-project/vllm-ascend repo for running vLLM seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
- [2024/12] We are working with the vLLM community to support [RFC]: Hardware pluggable.
Overview
vLLM Ascend (vllm-ascend) is a community maintained hardware plugin for running vLLM seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
It is the recommended approach for supporting the Ascend backend within the vLLM community. It adheres to the principles outlined in the [RFC]: Hardware pluggable, providing a hardware-pluggable interface that decouples the integration of the Ascend NPU with vLLM.
By using vLLM Ascend plugin, popular open-source models, including Transformer-like, Mixture-of-Expert, Embedding, Multi-modal LLMs can run seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
Prerequisites
- Hardware: Atlas 800I A2 Inference series, Atlas A2 Training series, Atlas 800I A3 Inference series, Atlas A3 Training series, Atlas 300I Duo (Experimental)
- OS: Linux
- Software:
- Python >= 3.9, < 3.12
- CANN >= 8.2.rc1
- PyTorch >= 2.7.1, torch-npu >= 2.7.1.dev20250724
- vLLM (the same version as vllm-ascend)
Getting Started
Please use the following recommended versions to get started quickly:
| Version | Release type | Doc |
|---|---|---|
| v0.10.0rc1 | Latest release candidate | QuickStart and Installation for more details |
| v0.9.1rc2 | Next stable release | QuickStart and Installation for more details |
| v0.7.3.post1 | Latest stable version | QuickStart and Installation for more details |
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING for more details, which is a step-by-step guide to help you set up development environment, build and test.
We welcome and value any contributions and collaborations:
- Please let us know if you encounter a bug by filing an issue
- Please use User forum for usage questions and help.
Branch
vllm-ascend has main branch and dev branch.
- main: main branch，corresponds to the vLLM main branch, and is continuously monitored for quality through Ascend CI.
- vX.Y.Z-dev: development branch, created with part of new releases of vLLM. For example,
v0.7.3-devis the dev branch for vLLMv0.7.3version.
Below is maintained branches:
| Branch | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|
| main | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM main branch and vLLM 0.10.x branch |
| v0.7.1-dev | Unmaintained | Only doc fixed is allowed |
| v0.7.3-dev | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.7.3 version, only bug fix is allowed and no new release tag any more. |
| v0.9.1-dev | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.9.1 version |
Please refer to Versioning policy for more details.
Weekly Meeting
- vLLM Ascend Weekly Meeting: https://tinyurl.com/vllm-ascend-meeting
- Wednesday, 15:00 - 16:00 (UTC+8, Convert to your timezone)
License
Apache License 2.0, as found in the LICENSE file.