-Since the creation of Aesara, the PyMC and Aesara projects have been greatly intertwined. Aesara internals are critical to PyMC. In that time, however, the governance philosophies and technical goals of PyMC and Aesara diverged. PyMC is a [NumFOCUS sponsored project since 2016](https://numfocus.org/uncategorized/numfocus-announces-new-fiscally-sponsored-project-pymc3). PyMC follows a community model where consensus is formed when making key decisions and moving forward. Aesara is following a model where a select group of core developers drive most development and make key decisions while nurturing outside contributions to core infrastructure or design decisions is not a priority (see [Aesara's contributing guide](https://github.com/aesara-devs/aesara/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) as well as [Rocket Ship to Mars archetype](https://opentechstrategies.com/archetypes-files/open-source-archetypes-v2.pdf#section*.10)).
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