RFC-0007 People & Rewards

• Feature Name: people
• Start Date: 2026-11-11
• RFC PR: #29
• Updated by: N/A

To sustain high-quality open collaboration and reward contributors, Shared RSI Community establishes the RSI Community Committee and the Monthly Contributor Incentive Mechanism, presented on the /people/ page.

1. RSI Community Committee

The RSI Community Committee oversees project direction, publishes official tasks on the RFC-0006 Task Board (only tasks published by committee members are recognized by the community), and reviews submitted code and experimental reproducibility.

1.1 Committee Groups & Responsibilities

The committee is organized into three groups:

Group	Current Members	Domain Tracks	Core Responsibilities
Project Leadership	Yaowei Zheng (@hiyouga)	Benchmark, Algorithm, Harness	Overall roadmap, RFC standards, and core infrastructure
Proposal Group	Xiang Qu (@ArisaZz), Zhihao Liu (@lzh368), Yanke Yu (@rank-Yu)	Algorithm (Xiang Qu), Benchmark (Zhihao Liu), Harness (Yanke Yu)	Curate frontier papers and benchmark needs; publish official tasks via the RFC-0006 template
Review Group	Leijun Zhou (@Saigyouji-Yuyuko1000), Zhihao Liu (@lzh368), Yangxi Xiang (@Myriad-Dreamin)	Algorithm (Leijun Zhou), Benchmark (Zhihao Liu), Harness (Yangxi Xiang)	Review Benchmark, Evaluation, Algorithm Plugin, and Harness PRs for reproducibility and merge completion

• Expanding Domain Tracks: Beyond Benchmark, Algorithm, and Harness, the committee continues to expand into vertical domains such as Medicine and Telecom.
• Fixed Committee Incentive: Each committee member receives a fixed ¥1,000 RMB / month incentive (issued in equivalent LLM Token credits and compute vouchers, distributed on the 5th of each month for the previous calendar month).
• How to Apply: Researchers and engineers interested in joining the RSI Community Committee may apply via the community WeChat group.

2. Contributor Leaderboard

The /people/ page displays two leaderboards sorted in descending order by Experience Points (EXP):

1. Monthly Leaderboard: Tracks EXP earned within the current calendar month from completing official tasks recognized under RFC-0006. It serves as the sole basis for monthly reward settlement; it resets at the start of each new calendar month, and rewards for the previous calendar month are distributed on the 5th of each month.
2. All-Time Leaderboard: Permanently accumulates each contributor's total historical EXP and completed task count.
3. Tie-Breaking Rule (Earliest to Reach Score Wins): When two or more contributors are tied on EXP, they are ordered by the timestamp at which they reached that EXP total (i.e., the merge timestamp of their latest completed task PR) in ascending order (earliest first). The contributor who reached the score earlier ranks higher and receives the corresponding Top-5 rank bonus.

Note: Only official tasks published by RSI Community Committee members award EXP upon PR merge; self-published issues opened by non-committee users are not recognized and do not count toward the leaderboard.

3. Monthly Contributor Reward Settlement Rules

In addition to fixed committee stipends, the community maintains a monthly contributor reward pool with a maximum monthly cap of ¥10,000 RMB (issued in equivalent LLM Token credits and compute vouchers), settled and distributed on the 5th of each month for the previous calendar month based on the Monthly Leaderboard:

Reward Component	Rate / Bonus	Formula & Explanation
1. 1:1 EXP Base Reward	1 EXP = ¥1 RMB	Every 1 EXP earned during the month converts 1:1 into ¥1 RMB of credits (e.g., completing one 50 EXP task awards ¥50 RMB directly), preventing dilution or over-allocation when few participants are active: $$\text{Base Reward}=\text{Individual Monthly EXP}\times \yen 1\text{ RMB}$$
2. Monthly Top-5 Bonus	¥800 / ¥400 / ¥200 / ¥100 / ¥50	The Top 5 contributors on the Monthly Leaderboard (with $\text{EXP}>0$) receive an additional tiered bonus: #1 +¥800, #2 +¥400, #3 +¥200, #4 +¥100, #5 +¥50.

Each contributor's total monthly reward is the sum of both components:

Total monthly disbursements across the contributor leaderboard are capped at ¥10,000 RMB / month.