At the end of the day, the gem5-gpu team strives to follow and encourage these overarching principles:
  * Supporting and promoting the research community by providing valuable code for others to use and modify
  * Actively promoting efficient and effective research progress by developing maintainable and extensible code, and providing guidance to users who need it
  * Actively avoiding debugging time sinks by mitigating reasonably likely or potentially complicated problems that can arise from using/modifying code
  * Enjoyable process for contributing to the codebase and community
  * Quick iteration for adding simulator features/functionality