Long-term contributor looking to get more involved

[namgyu-youn]

Dear TorchAO (ao) team,

Hi, I'm Namgyu Youn (@namgyu-youn), who has been contributing to ao for a while (mostly Post-Training Quantization—Int8Tensor, AWQ/SmoothQuant, etc; https://github.com/pytorch/ao/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Anamgyu-youn+)

First, I want to thank Jerry for reviewing many of my PRs. The feedback has been really helpful for my learning. I wanted to reach out ao team because:

1. ao is closely aligned with my mid-term career direction
2. ao serves as a great guide to learn PyTorch internals like dispatch and layout
3. I prefer ao compared to other similar open-source projects

To be clear, I'm not asking to be promoted as a reviewer, triaged review, or to access internal infrastructure like team Slack. I understand those are for the core team, and my ability is quiet far from the team level.

What I'm hoping for is merge permissions for approved PRs. Some of my PRs sit approved but unmerged for a while (> 2 months). Would it be possible to get merge access just for PRs that have already been approved by maintainers?

Also, if there are any RFC discussions or areas where I could help with reviews (even as a learning opportunity), I'd be happy to participate—like AWQ/SmoothQuant, Int8Tensor, etc.—though I understand my ability is not yet at the team level.

Hope to grow with ao long-term, thanks!

[danielvegamyhre]

Thanks for all the great work you've done @namgyu-youn! cc @jerryzh168 @vkuzo to discuss

[vkuzo]

HI Namgyu, thank you for your contributions! A great channel for faster feedback is Slack - I added you on LinkedIn, feel free to message me your email and we can get you added.