Nominate Mengqing Cao as vllm-ascend maintainer (vllm-project#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](vllm-project#2088 (review)),
[comment-2990074116](vllm-project#1032 (comment)),
[comment-2921063723](vllm-project#1013 (comment))
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](vllm-project/vllm#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
vllm-project#2088 (review),
vllm-project#1446 (comment),
vllm-project#1032 (comment),
vllm-project#1013 (comment)
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
vllm-project/vllm#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](vllm-project#413) and
[[RFC]: Unit test coverage
improvement](vllm-project#1298) to
help vllm ascend improve the coverage.

Her main contributions focus on the adaptation of parallel strategies
and communicator, such as
vllm-project#1800,
vllm-project#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:
vllm-project/vllm@78dba40

Signed-off-by: Jade Zheng <zheng.shoujian@outlook.com>

Author: jianzs

docs/source/community/contributors.md

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 | Yi Gan| [@ganyi1996ppo](https://github.com/ganyi1996ppo) | 2025/02 |
 | Shoujian Zheng| [@jianzs](https://github.com/jianzs) | 2025/06 |
 | Wengang Chen | [@ApsarasX](https://github.com/ApsarasX) | 2025/08 |
+| Mengqing Cao | [@MengqingCao](https://github.com/MengqingCao) | 2025/08 |
 
 ## Contributors