[LLVMdev] LLVM 3.3 dot releases

Arnaud A. de Grandmaison
Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:21:43 -0000

Hi Tom,

We, at Parrot, are using LLVM/Clang for our various home-made cpus / dsps.
This is done on private backends, but I am interested in participating to the
dot releases, as this is essentially what I am doing internally : select
patches to fix bugs to the current release --- beside developing the backends
:)

FWIW, I also participated to the 3.3 release.

Cheers,
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Arnaud A. de Grandmaison

On Monday 24 June 2013 09:08:10 you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A few months ago, I mentioned I was interested in helping to make dot
> releases for LLVM 3.3.  Now that 3.3 has been released, I would like
> to kick off the process of collecting bug fixes and merging them into the
> 3.3 branch.
>
> I reviewed the previous discussion about dot releases:
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2013-April/060821.html
> and I've come up with the following dot release 'rules':
>
> + Dot releases will follow the same procedure as major releases, which
>   means stable patches must be approved by the appropriate code owner and
>   that dot releases will have the same testing and qualification
> requirements.
>
> + No regressions.  If a patch to the stable branch introduces a regression
>   that cannot be fixed, it will be reverted.
>
> + Participation from developers is optional.  If developers don't have
>   time to help with issues in the stable branch, they do not have to.
>
> I'm sure we'll need to amend or add to these rules as we work
through the
> dot release process, but I think this list is a good starting point.
> So, with these rules in mind, I would like to volunteer for to be the
> release manager for the 3.3 dot releases, which means I would be
> responsible for overseeing the release process and also making commits the
> 3.3 branch.
>
> I'll just throw it out there that we should aim for a dot release in
two
> months.  I don't want to set anything in stone, though, because I think
> that we may want to adjust this depending on how much activity there is
> in the stable branch.
>
> What I'm asking for now from the LLVM community now is:
>
> + Approval to commit patches to the 3.3 stable branch (This is really
>   a question for Chris).
>
> + Individual contributors who are interested in helping with dot
>   releases in any way.
>
> + Contacts from projects that use LLVM and are interested in
>   coordinating their releases with LLVM dot releases.
>
> I'm looking forward to working with the community and making LLVM dot
> releases a success!  Thanks in advance to everyone for your help.
>
> - Tom
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