[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] Status of SEH?

Jb Feldman
Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:47:30 -0000

Sorry about causing all this trouble. I misunderstood what was allowable
conversation on this list, and honestly didn't even think that I was
seriously discussing patents, I thought my statement was simply a statement
of fact, but I realize that these are things on which professionals should
be consulted. As to patent issues, I'll cross that bridge with the
oversight group if I ever get something viable to be included in llvm.

 I would like to redirect my question simply to be: how do people feel
about whether it should be implemented as Visual C++ SEH or barest-bones
SEH. Being new, I'm also not sure whether that would be a CFE question or
an LLVM question, if it is better suited to llvm-dev, please let me know.

Thanks,
JB

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Alp Toker <alp at nuanti.com> wrote:

>
> On 30/01/2014 22:57, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Alp Toker <alp at nuanti.com>
wrote:
>>
>>> On 30/01/2014 22:06, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Actually, the policy actually says the right thing, you removed
a
>>>> sentence, which says:
>>>> "Please contact the oversight group for more
details."
>>>>
>>>
>>> To be clear, I didn't remove this sentence -- it's some way
down in the
>>> paragraph and pertains to receiving details from the oversight
group,
>>> whereas the section about providing notification pertains to
"us", the
>>> LLVM
>>> community.
>>>
>>> This is grammatically clear and unambiguous so if it's not the
intention,
>>> that needs to be reworded.
>>>
>> Don't take this the wrong way, but most people would still
understand
>> that this probably means "don't talk about patents except to
the
>> oversight group".
>>
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> I'm not sure if you realize, but that paragraph reads as an open
> invitation to notify and discuss patents on the development and commits
> lists.
>
>
>  There are roughly no open source projects where the
>> rule is "talk about patents all you like on random development
mailing
>> lists"
>>
>
> There are plenty of projects around the world the where that is absolutely
> the rule.
>
> Your remarks suggest that you've worked on a limited range of projects
> without the perspective it takes to accurately word a developer policy like
> this for an international audience.
>
> "Most people" doesn't cut it here and we need to set out our
expectations
> explicitly before we start turning away new contributors and telling them
> to "hit the road" for something they said.
>
> I can't stand by while new contributors receive abuse for some
violation
> of a rule that's not even written in the LLVM developer policy.
>
> We should assume that contributors come from a background that's
varied,
> inclusive and different to the norms in our immediate circles, and aim to
> provide them with accurate and helpful guidance in the developer policy and
> reflects our expectations. Flaming people when they try to engage our
> community because they have a different legal system or interpretation.
>
> What next, turn people away because they have a funny name? Reject patches
> because their skin color is different to yours? I'm disappointed that
> you've tried to defend what is clearly repeated and inexcusable
behaviour
> by Chandler towards people who are graciously trying to help out. In so far
> as there is a community, we must stand up distance ourselves from behaviour
> like that.
>
> (This is becoming OT for cfe-dev, moving the thread to llvm-dev. Let's
> refocus into a more productive mode and and roll a patch already?)
>
>
> Alp.
>
>
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