Managing a fast-growing open-source community is not for the fainthearted, but Mark Himelstein keeps the new specs coming.
Art of herding cats
What’s at stake?
The measure of success for an open-source community such as RISC-V can be memberships, number of shipped products or revenues generated by its member companies. But just as significant is the number of specs ratified within the community. This matters because specs form the groundwork for members’ technical advancements, engagements with developers and future adoption of the technologies involved.