Dear community, there has been quite a bit of discussions on how we can collectively make strategic decisions forward, including posts by @Hzfengsy and others. After reviewing our conversations in the past years and existing practices from other ASF projects, we think it is helpful to bring clarity, so we can make strategic decisions for directions like https://discuss.tvm.apache.org/t/discuss-tvm-community-strategy-for-foundational-models/15401/6
As a result, we made the following process RFC. ## Summary Machine Learning Compilation (MLC) is an emerging field in fast development. With the tremendous help from the whole community, it’s exciting to see that TVM delivers significant needs from and to developers and thus has become widely popular in both academia and industry. As the community pushes for different goals that help each other, naturally, there are strategy decision points about overall directions and new modules adoptions. These decisions are not fine-grained code-level changes but are important for a community to be viable in the long term. The process of bringing those changes is less clarified to the community, and hurdles can be high. We have made attempts in the past to bring more verbose processes in a less successful. One observation is that it is hard for broader volunteer developers and community members to follow complicated processes. Additionally, different members can have different interpretations of how to do things, leading to stagnation and lack of participation from volunteer members. We are in a different world now in the case of ML/AI ecosystem, and it is critical for the community to be able to make collective decisions together and empower the community. Following the practices of existing ASF projects (e.g. hadoop), we propose to use a simple process for strategic decisions. ## Proposal: Strategy Decision Process We propose the following clarification of the strategy decision process: It takes Lazy 2/3 majority of binding decisions to make strategic decisions in the TVM community, including: - Adoption of a guidance-level community strategy to enable new directions or overall project evolution. - Establishment of a new module in the project. - Adoption of a new codebase: When the codebase for an existing, released product is to be replaced with an alternative codebase. If such a vote fails to gain approval, the existing code base will continue. This also covers the creation of new sub-projects within the project. All these decisions are made after community conversations that get captured as part of the summary. --- [Visit Topic](https://discuss.tvm.apache.org/t/process-rfc-clarify-community-strategy-decision-process/15463/1) to respond. You are receiving this because you enabled mailing list mode. To unsubscribe from these emails, [click here](https://discuss.tvm.apache.org/email/unsubscribe/3a2023fec4c74e36d6d2fe08fdf3acae9f93a11a6bafcf6ae8c8bea6765b0255).
