First PyTorch Quarterly Maintainers Meeting Minutes - [Meeting date: July 22, 2022]

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General Info

Date: Jul 22, 2022

Attendees:

  • Soumith Chintala
  • Edward Yang
  • Gregory Chanan
  • Facilitator (Slava Kovalevskyi)

Place: Zoom

Agenda

  • Kick off meeting
  • Re-confirm the list of participants who should be on the list:
    • Soumith Chintala
    • Edward Yang
    • Gregory Chanan
    • Dmytro Dzhulgakov
    • Facilitator (Slava Kovalevskyi)
  • Review of the proposal to add a new module and new module contributor
  • Next: review module contributors formal responsibilities (should be published on PyTorch Governance — PyTorch 1.12 documentation ):
    • Triaging and fixing high priority issues of the module
    • Triaging and reviewing and landing high priority pull requests of the module
    • Supporting public documentation related to the module
    • Running public developer meetings
  • Where to store this document and meeting notes
  • Site updates retrospective
  • When will be the next sync

Minutes

IMPOTANT: Minutes are just notes, not exactly what was said and with some interpretation. However, these minutes have been reviewed by the core maintainers for accuracy.

  • Kick off meeting

  • Re-confirm the list of ppl who should be on the list

    • Soumith Chintala
    • Edward Yang
    • Gregory Chanan
    • Dmytro Dzhulgakov
    • Facilitator (Slava Kovalevskyi)
    • Discussion:
      • Soumith Chintala - LGTM
      • Gregory Chanan - LGTM
      • Edward Yang - LGTM

  • Review of the proposal to add a new module and new module contributor. Discussion reached:

    • =redacted out= (decision partly been executed here)

  • Next: review module contributors formal responsibilities (should be published on PyTorch Governance — PyTorch 1.12 documentation ):

    • Triaging and fixing high priority issues of the module
    • Triaging and reviewing and landing high priority pull requests of the module
    • Supporting public documentation related to the module
    • Running public developer meetings

  • Discussion:

    • Soumith Chintala - LGTM, any other comments from anyone?
    • Edward Yang - Overall LGTM, but let’s think if we can do a nice runbook to explain new contributors what does these items mean in details
    • Slava Kovalevskyi - I’ve added action item to create such runbook
    • Gregory Chanan - LGTM, but let’s also add to the responsibilities some guidance about the escalation, how to escalate (clear path) but more importantly when to escalate to this group

  • Where to store this document and meeting notes:

    • Slava Kovalevskyi - minutes taken by facilitator, will be edited to readable format, reviewed with all participants and when ready shared on:
      • Public google docs (later changed to: PyTorch Dev discussion forum, for now)
      • Link posted on the Dev Discussion
      • Link posted on the official twitter
        Any objections to this process?
    • Soumith Chintala - LGTM
    • Gregory Chanan - LGTM
    • Edward Yang - LGTM

  • Site updates retrospective

    • Soumith Chintala - I have not even noticed that we have a brand new site. What actually made this better vs prev one?
    • Edward Yang - When did this happen?
    • Slava Kovalevskyi - Around year start/end last year
    • Soumith Chintala - The community section was fantastic, but the rest looks the same, except for some background and install matrix looks strange

  • When will be the next sync

    • Soumith Chintala - Quarter meetings LGTM, if needed we can do ad hoc
    • Gregory Chanan - Do we know that happens sooner than a quarter?
    • Soumith Chintala - That is why I want a subscription to the form where people are posting topics to this group, so we can decide if we need to have meeting ad-hoc
    • Gregory Chanan - But there is no known things at this point
    • Soumith Chintala - No

Action Items

  • Resolve condition on conditional approval for adding new contributor (owner: Slava Kovalevskyi)
  • Create runbook for new maintainers to the PyTorch (owner: Slava Kovalevskyi)
  • Share the form with everyone on this meeting so everyone can do proactive monitoring of the topics (owner: Slava Kovalevskyi)
  • Create better runbook for the future meeting facilitator (owner: Slava Kovalevskyi)
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