[LLVMdev] New linker ownership

David Blaikie
Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:06:09 -0000

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Lang Hames <lhames at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> Hi Rui,
>>
>> > so I'd like to be an owner of the new linkers (both for ELF
and COFF),
>> ...
>>
>> Sounds good to me.
>>
>> Do you mind if I add myself as a code owner for LLD Core / MachO, since
>> I'll be continuing to work on that?
>>
>
> I'm not very familiar with convention in LLVM, but my understanding is
> that one needs to became an effective owner by driving development of a
> project before becoming an official owner, so in that sense you may want to
> act like an owner and then wait for people to start thinking that you
> effectively own that portion of the source code?
>

Yep, pretty much.

It's no big deal for Lang to be contributing substantially in post-commit
review (& having ready access to Nick will no doubt be helpful there*) for
a bit before switching ownership.

* It'd be nice to have more lld discussions in public, too, though - the
project seems to sort of had singular interested parties for a lot of its
history, so it's lacked community dialog/discussion. (this is just a naive
view, I haven't followed the project in detail)

- Dave


>
>
>> Cheers,
>> Lang.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:17 AM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at
linaro.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 15 July 2015 at 00:08, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com>
wrote:
>>> > Historically LLD has been suffered by over-designing and
>>> over-engineering. I
>>> > don't want to repeat that again in the new codebase, so
I'd like to be
>>> an
>>> > owner of the new linkers (both for ELF and COFF), so that
I'm
>>> responsible to
>>> > ensure all patches are reviewed (whether pre-commit or
post-commit) if
>>> > submitted to one of ELF or COFF directories.
>>>
>>> Thanks Rui! That'd be great!
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> --renato
>>>
>>
>>
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