[Community] Nominate new maintainers: @yiz-liu @paulyu12 @weijinqian0 @nalinaly

[wangxiyuan]

I'd like to nominate 4 new maintainers for vllm-ascend:

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Yizhou Liu @yiz-liu

Review Quality‌: He has completed 40+ reviews and provided solutions or guides for 10+ issues, which includes many quality review like #issue-3428408401, #discussion_r2224572309, #issuecomment-2982470226, #issuecomment-2903621197, #issuecomment-2857678691.

Sustained and High-Quality Contributions: He has contributed more than 30+ commits since Mar.2025, especially, aclgraph, DP, and EP related contributions are the main reason why I nominated him. As the owner of aclgraph support, he continuously improves aclgraph stability and performance as well as fixes key bugs. he laid the groundwork for EP-related functionality and delivered multiple foundational improvements

Community involvement: He has a very good habit of logging issues：#1649 and is also very active and involved in many issues to help users resolve issues.

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Peng Yu @paulyu12

The main reasons for his nomination are his expertise and key contributions to the LORA and sustained and major contributions (initial support/doc/bugfix) around Lora.

Sustained and Major Contributions: @paulyu12 starts his contribution with Lora and Mulit-Lora support since Apr 2025, he contributed about 10+ commits and bugfixes on vllm-ascend.
Review Quality‌ and Community Involvement‌: He also helped more than 10+ users address Lora related issues.

I believe his addition will further improve vLLM Ascend Lora support.

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Jinqian Wei @weijinqian0

The main reasons for his nomination are his key contributions to the RL scene and the high quality of his code reviews.

Review Quality‌: He has completed 60+ reviews since June. 2025, include #comment-3284055430, discussion_r2332166704, discussion_r2343289692 high quality review.

Sustained and Quality Contributions: He has Deep understanding of ‌vLLM‌ and ‌vLLM Ascend‌ codebases and solid contributions in RL scene (about 10+ PR merged and 10+ PRs merged as co-author.

• Code Refactor: As a co-author, he participated in the refactoring of the MOE module refactor select_experts of moe module #2150 [main] [refactor] refactor common_fused_moe.py #2706 refactor linear #2867
• Performance Enhancement for RL: Participated as a co-author in the design and development of the solution, contributing to the planning of core capabilities. [0.9.1][Feature]Moe alltoallv communication optimization for unquantized RL training sence & alltoallv support dpo #1547 add mlp tp optimze #2120 and so on.

So I think he's a great addition to the vLLM Ascend Maintainer team.

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Chuanyu Qin @nalinaly

The main reason I nominated Qinchuanyu is because he is the initial designer of aclgraph and torch-npu, two key components of vllm-ascend. Considering aclgraph will eventually become the main path for vllm-ascend's graph model, I propose to nominate him.

Sustained and Major Contributions: In fact, chuanyu actively helped the users/developers of vllm-ascend since Mar 2025 (vllm-discuss#162), and also helped early users of vllm-ascend understand aclgraph. He provided lots of help in the process of integrating aclgraph with vllm-ascend.

Community Involvement‌: As speaker, he also presents help users understand aclgraph and torch_npu 《The design philosophy of torch_npu and the high performance principle of aclGraph》

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They have activate contribution to vllm-ascend or have rich experience for ascend AI.

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[wangxiyuan]

1. @yiz-liu

• ✅Review Quality‌:
  40+ reviews and provided solutions or guides for 10+ issues, which includes many quality opinions like #issue-3428408401, #discussion_r2224572309, #issuecomment-2982470226, #issuecomment-2903621197, #issuecomment-2857678691

• ✅ Sustained and Major Contributions
  He has contributed more than 30+ commits since Mar.2025, especially, aclgraph, DP, and EP related contributions are the main reason why I nominated him.

• ✅ Quality Contribution‌:
  ACL Graph、Expert-Parallel / Data-Parallel

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2. @paulyu12

• ✅Review Quality‌:
  https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pulls?q=is%3Apr+commenter%3Apaulyu12+is%3Aclosed+

• ✅ Sustained and Major Contributions
  He completed about 10+ commits and bugfixes on vllm-ascend. He also helped more than 10+ users address Lora related issues.

• ✅Community Involvement‌:
  https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20commenter%3Apaulyu12

[wangxiyuan]

3. @weijinqian0

• ✅Review Quality‌:
  He has completed 50+ reviews since June. 2025, include #comment-3284055430, discussion_r2332166704, discussion_r2343289692 high quality review.

• ✅ Sustained and Major Contributions
  Performance Enhancement for RL
  https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aweijinqian0+is%3Amerged+

• ✅ Quality Contribution‌:
  [0.9.1][Feature]Moe alltoallv communication optimization for unquantized RL training sence & alltoallv support dpo #1547
  [main][Feature]Moe alltoallv communication optimization for unquantized RL training sence  #2088

• ✅Community Involvement‌:
  At 2025 Q2 and Q3, He also lead the #1547 · vllm-project/vllm-ascend). It support qwen3 moe、 DBO、token_dispatcher. He also lead code refactor about moe module and linear module. like，Pull Request #2150 Pull Request #2923 、Pull requests #2706 and the Linear modulePull Request #2867.

[wangxiyuan]

4. @nalinaly

• ✅ Contributors of vllm-ascend's key dependencies
  He is the designer of aclgraph and torch-npu.

• ✅ Sustained and Major Contributions:
  In fact, chuanyu actively helped the users/developers of vllm-ascend since Mar 2025 (vllm-discuss#162), and also helped early users of vllm-ascend understand aclgraph. He provided lots of help in the process of integrating aclgraph with vllm-ascend.

• ✅Community Involvement‌:
  https://discuss.vllm.ai/t/can-ascend-officially-draft-a-documentation-on-the-vllm-ascend-adaptation-for-graph-mode/162/7

[Yikun]

LGTM! Congrats! 🎉@yiz-liu @paulyu12 @weijinqian0 @nalinaly

[MengqingCao]

Welcome!

[jianzs]

Welcome!

[wangxiyuan]

Thanks. welcome everybody