Contributor Guide

TVM has been developed by community members. Everyone is welcomed to contribute. We value all forms of contributions, including, but not limited to:

• Code reviewing of the existing patches.

• Documentation and usage examples

• Community participation in forums and issues.

• Code readability and developer guide

  • We welcome contributions that add code comments to improve readability

  • We also welcome contributions to docs to explain the design choices of the internal.

• Test cases to make the codebase more robust

• Tutorials, blog posts, talks that promote the project.

Here are guidelines for contributing to various aspect of the project:

• TVM Community Guidelines
  • General Development Process
  • Strategy Decision Process
  • Committers
  • Reviewers
• Submit a Pull Request
  • Guidelines
  • Commit Message Guideline
  • CI Environment
  • Testing
• Code Reviews
  • Building Trust
  • Community Participation
  • Read the code carefully
  • Be Respectful
  • Factors to Consider about Code Quality
  • Consensus Building
  • Consistency
  • Additional Recommendations
• Committer Guide
  • Community First
  • Public Archive Principle
  • Independent Project Management
  • Shepherd a Pull Request
  • Time Management
  • Broad Collaboration
• Documentation
  • The Four Document Types
  • Technical Details
• Code Guide and Tips
  • C++ Code Styles
  • Python Code Styles
  • Writing Python Tests
  • Network Resources
  • Handle Integer Constant Expression
• Git Usage Tips
  • How to resolve a conflict with main
  • How to combine multiple commits into one
  • Reset to the most recent main branch
  • Recover a Previous Commit after Reset
  • Apply only k-Latest Commits on to the main
  • What is the consequence of force push
• Using TVM's CI
  • For Contributors
  • For Maintainers
• Release Process
  • Prepare the Release Notes
  • Prepare the Release Candidate
  • Prepare the GPG Key
  • Cut a Release Candidate
  • Update TVM Version on main
  • Upload the Release Candidate
  • Cherry-Picking
  • Call a Vote on the Release Candidate
  • Post the Release
  • Update the TVM Website
  • Post the Announcement
  • Patch Releases
• Error Handling Guide
  • Raise a Specific Error in C++
  • How to choose an Error Type