# Core Maintainer Meeting April 17th

**URL:** <https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/core-maintainer-meeting-april-17th/3345>\
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**Created:** [April 11, 2026, 8:35am UTC](https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/core-maintainer-meeting-april-17th/3345 "2026-04-11T08:35:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 8:35am UTC](https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/core-maintainer-meeting-april-17th/3345/1 "2026-04-11T08:35:05Z")

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The next PyTorch core maintainer meeting will be held April 17th

The general purpose of these meetings is to:

- Discuss any technical plans and roadmaps for PyTorch
- Review any high-level requests related to PyTorch, such as:
  - Creating new modules
  - Adding new maintainers at the core, module, or library level
  - Resolving any disputes among maintainers

PyTorch core maintainers are the primary attendees, with module maintainers and others invited only per meeting, depending on the agenda. The agenda for this meeting will be added to this post as it is developed and meeting minutes will be published to [dev-discuss.pytorch.org](http://dev-discuss.pytorch.org).

PyTorch Core Maintainers are:

- Piotr Bialecki
- Gregory Chanan
- Soumith Chintala (lead)
- Alban Desmasion
- Natalia Gimelshein
- Horace He
- Nikita Shulga
- Joe Spisak
- Edward Yang
- Dmytro Dzhulgakov (emeritus)

If you have any questions about PyTorch technical governance please refer to the information here:

[Persons of Interest](https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/main/community/persons_of_interest.html)

[Governance Overview](https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/community/governance.html)

The Agenda

- Review and approve notes (what is said and what is redacted) from last meeting
- Actions taken asynchronously between meetings  
Vote on Moving ExecuTorch as a Core Managed External Module⁩  
Passed 5-1
- Maintainer or core maintainer nominations received?
- Lead core maintainer discussion
- Tech topics

Any community member can propose agenda items by submitting them using the following link: [Form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdRvcFm7RuIHA-jNJYdz9bEZqE_KBT_RShJu3-jrj_BPZo-qA/viewform)

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**Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 4:15pm UTC](https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/core-maintainer-meeting-april-17th/3345/2 "2026-08-25T16:15:22Z")

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Here are the approved redacted notes from this core maintainer meeting. The core maintainers review and approve each set of notes during the subsequent meeting.

[readacted] Agenda PyTorch Core Maintainers Meeting - May 1st, 2026

Core Maintainers: Soumith Chintala, Gregory Chanan, Edward Yang,Alban Desmaison, Nikita Shulga, Piotr Bialecki, Horace He, Natalia Gimelshein, Joe Spisak

Facilitator: Chris Gottbrath

Agenda ([public post](https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/core-maintainer-meeting-april-17th/3345)):

1. Review and approve notes (what is said and what is redacted) from last meeting

2. Actions taken asynchronously between meetings

3. Lead core maintainer discussion

4. Maintainer or core maintainer nominations received? [PyTorch Core Maintainer Mandate](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nvf2vmkWJAR17alAYHXxaYLhGM0mzbhOIdTKRhoY_cM/edit?tab=t.0)

5. Tech topics

- This is a three-tier CI system to improve testing infrastructure and reduce maintenance burden on the core team.

- It would allow partners to manage their own infrastructure while maintaining quality standards and SLAs.

- Two projects (Huawei NPU and RISC-V from Rice) are already using the new L1 trigger layer of this system.