llvm dev - Aug 2016 - [3.9 Release] Please write release notes!

Dear everyone,

It's time for the release notes nagging email.

We have release notes for LLVM, Clang, clang-tools-extra, lld, and
Polly. (If there are more, please let me know.)

Most of these are pretty empty files; see e.g. the LLVM one at [1].
The internet does read these notes when we release, so please help
make them informative!

If you made any interesting changes during the past six months, or
know someone who did, please write something for the release notes.
You can commit them directly to the branch, or send a patch to me and
I'll happily commit them for you.

If you feel responsible for a particular target, e.g. X86, ARM, MIPS,
etc., please help give those release notes some love.


Here are some examples we might want to mention (thanks LLVM Weekly!).
If you're cc'd on this email, you're mentioned below.

- Dmitry, Renato: the Clang notes mention abi_tag. Do we want to
expand the text here a little? Link to the PR?

- Teresa, Mehdi: there's a "Introduction of ThinLTO [..] ping
Mehdi/Teresa before the release if not done" note, so here's the ping
:-) We should link to the blog post as well.

- Chris Bieneman, there's a "note about autoconf build having been
removed". Do you want to expand this? :-)

- Danny, George: do you want to add something about MemorySSA?

- Nico, do you want to mention clang-cl's precompiled header support?

- James, do you want to mention the removal of the CppBackend?

- Chris Dewhurst, do you want to mention soft-float SPARC support (and
potentially other SPARC improvements)?

- Benjamin, should we mention include-fixer somewhere?

Many thanks,
Hans


 [1]
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_39/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?view=markup

On 3 August 2016 at 00:46, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org>
wrote:
> - Dmitry, Renato: the Clang notes mention abi_tag. Do we want to
> expand the text here a little? Link to the PR?
We certainly do. This is a big deal. I'll write up something and let
Dmitry correct my mistakes. :)

We'll also add the ARM/AArch64 changelogs.

cheers,
--renato

On 3 August 2016 at 10:46, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org>
wrote:
> We certainly do. This is a big deal. I'll write up something and let
> Dmitry correct my mistakes. :)
Done.

> We'll also add the ARM/AArch64 changelogs.
Done. :)

cheers,
--renato

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org>
wrote:
> Dear everyone,
>
> It's time for the release notes nagging email.
>
> We have release notes for LLVM, Clang, clang-tools-extra, lld, and
> Polly. (If there are more, please let me know.)
>
> Most of these are pretty empty files; see e.g. the LLVM one at [1].
> The internet does read these notes when we release, so please help
> make them informative!
>
> If you made any interesting changes during the past six months, or
> know someone who did, please write something for the release notes.
> You can commit them directly to the branch, or send a patch to me and
> I'll happily commit them for you.
>
> If you feel responsible for a particular target, e.g. X86, ARM, MIPS,
> etc., please help give those release notes some love.
>
>
> Here are some examples we might want to mention (thanks LLVM Weekly!).
> If you're cc'd on this email, you're mentioned below.
>
> - Dmitry, Renato: the Clang notes mention abi_tag. Do we want to
> expand the text here a little? Link to the PR?
>
> - Teresa, Mehdi: there's a "Introduction of ThinLTO [..] ping
> Mehdi/Teresa before the release if not done" note, so here's the
ping
> :-) We should link to the blog post as well.
>
Will do so later today.

> - Chris Bieneman, there's a "note about autoconf build having been
> removed". Do you want to expand this? :-)
>
> - Danny, George: do you want to add something about MemorySSA?
>
> - Nico, do you want to mention clang-cl's precompiled header support?
>
> - James, do you want to mention the removal of the CppBackend?
>
> - Chris Dewhurst, do you want to mention soft-float SPARC support (and
> potentially other SPARC improvements)?
>
> - Benjamin, should we mention include-fixer somewhere?
>
> Many thanks,
> Hans
>
>
>  [1]
>
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_39/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?view=markup
>


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> On Aug 2, 2016, at 4:46 PM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org>
wrote:
> 
> Dear everyone,
> 
> It's time for the release notes nagging email.
> 
> We have release notes for LLVM, Clang, clang-tools-extra, lld, and
> Polly. (If there are more, please let me know.)
> 
> Most of these are pretty empty files; see e.g. the LLVM one at [1].
> The internet does read these notes when we release, so please help
> make them informative!
> 
> If you made any interesting changes during the past six months, or
> know someone who did, please write something for the release notes.
> You can commit them directly to the branch, or send a patch to me and
> I'll happily commit them for you.
> 
> If you feel responsible for a particular target, e.g. X86, ARM, MIPS,
> etc., please help give those release notes some love.
> 
> 
> Here are some examples we might want to mention (thanks LLVM Weekly!).
> If you're cc'd on this email, you're mentioned below.
> 
> - Dmitry, Renato: the Clang notes mention abi_tag. Do we want to
> expand the text here a little? Link to the PR?
> 
> - Teresa, Mehdi: there's a "Introduction of ThinLTO [..] ping
> Mehdi/Teresa before the release if not done" note, so here's the
ping
> :-) We should link to the blog post as well.
> 
> - Chris Bieneman, there's a "note about autoconf build having been
> removed". Do you want to expand this? :-)
Updated in r277617. Thanks!
-Chris
> 
> - Danny, George: do you want to add something about MemorySSA?
> 
> - Nico, do you want to mention clang-cl's precompiled header support?
> 
> - James, do you want to mention the removal of the CppBackend?
> 
> - Chris Dewhurst, do you want to mention soft-float SPARC support (and
> potentially other SPARC improvements)?
> 
> - Benjamin, should we mention include-fixer somewhere?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Hans
> 
> 
> [1]
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_39/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?view=markup

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Teresa Johnson <tejohnson at google.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org>
wrote:
>
>> Dear everyone,
>>
>> It's time for the release notes nagging email.
>>
>> We have release notes for LLVM, Clang, clang-tools-extra, lld, and
>> Polly. (If there are more, please let me know.)
>>
>> Most of these are pretty empty files; see e.g. the LLVM one at [1].
>> The internet does read these notes when we release, so please help
>> make them informative!
>>
>> If you made any interesting changes during the past six months, or
>> know someone who did, please write something for the release notes.
>> You can commit them directly to the branch, or send a patch to me and
>> I'll happily commit them for you.
>>
>> If you feel responsible for a particular target, e.g. X86, ARM, MIPS,
>> etc., please help give those release notes some love.
>>
>>
>> Here are some examples we might want to mention (thanks LLVM Weekly!).
>> If you're cc'd on this email, you're mentioned below.
>>
>> - Dmitry, Renato: the Clang notes mention abi_tag. Do we want to
>> expand the text here a little? Link to the PR?
>>
>> - Teresa, Mehdi: there's a "Introduction of ThinLTO [..] ping
>> Mehdi/Teresa before the release if not done" note, so here's
the ping
>> :-) We should link to the blog post as well.
>>
>
> Will do so later today.
>
Done in r277628.
>
>
>> - Chris Bieneman, there's a "note about autoconf build having
been
>> removed". Do you want to expand this? :-)
>>
>> - Danny, George: do you want to add something about MemorySSA?
>>
>> - Nico, do you want to mention clang-cl's precompiled header
support?
>>
>> - James, do you want to mention the removal of the CppBackend?
>>
>> - Chris Dewhurst, do you want to mention soft-float SPARC support (and
>> potentially other SPARC improvements)?
>>
>> - Benjamin, should we mention include-fixer somewhere?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Hans
>>
>>
>>  [1]
>>
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_39/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?view=markup
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Teresa Johnson |  Software Engineer |  tejohnson at google.com |
> 408-460-2413
>


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