llvm dev - Apr 2019 - f18 is accepted as part of LLVM project!

Hi everyone,

We as a community have been discussing whether the f18 Fortran compiler and
runtime project should be accepted as part of the LLVM project, discussed this
again in more detail at EuroLLVM’19 and the LLVM Foundation board of directors
has recently approved its inclusion into the project!

The foundation recommends considering a new name for the project (e.g. flang or
simply fortran) to be more accessible and obvious for new contributors - in
addition to being the repository name, it will also  be the base stem for
mailing lists and other project related material.  The f18 folks can discuss
this, come up with a decision, and work with the llvm-admin team to set up the
requisite infra.

The board also recommends that f18 evaluate (over time) whether it is reasonably
possible to eliminate the dependence on C++’17 features.  Using C++’17 is not a
blocker for inclusion into the project, but will be a blocker for certain other
infrastructure (e.g. build bots and integration into official releases), but
those may or may not be relevant now given the early state of f18.

In any case, on behalf of the LLVM Foundation - welcome to the project and
congratulations!  It is really great to see new efforts in the compiler and
runtime be included into the LLVM project!

Chris Lattner 
on behalf of the LLVM Foundation