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Description

as per discussion on Thursday team sync

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Checklist

• I have read the Contributing Guidelines.
• New or existing tests cover these changes.
• The documentation is up to date with these changes.

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📝 Summary

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• Documentation
  • Updated contribution guidelines to require maintainer assignment before external contributors begin work on existing issues. New work requires issue discussion, agreement on scope and validation, and assignment before implementation.
  • Obvious issues may be tracked with a brief issue. Bug reports should include a reproducer and environment details.
  • Unsolicited pull requests may be closed without notice. NVIDIA contributors may continue using normal team planning and self-assignment.
  • Removed the previous allowance for direct pull requests for small standalone fixes and for unassigned bug reports or suggestions.

The contribution guidance updates assignment requirements for external contributors, specifies information to include in bug reports, and states that unsolicited pull requests may be closed. NVIDIA contributors retain the self-assignment process.

Changes: Contribution guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
External contributor process CONTRIBUTING.md	External contributors must wait for assignment before implementing existing issues or new work. Bug reports should include a reproducer, expected and observed behavior, CUDA driver version, and Python environment information. The guidance states that unsolicited pull requests may be closed and retains NVIDIA contributor self-assignment.

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/cuda-python#3103: Updates contributor coordination rules, including maintainer agreement and assignment for external contributors.

Priority: Low

Change: Other

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to dd5fa

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