<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:03 AM, jeaye <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contact@jeaye.com" target="_blank">contact@jeaye.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 11:54:17PM -0700, David Blaikie wrote:<br>
> [1]<a href="http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#making-and-submitting-a-patch" target="_blank">http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#making-and-submitting-a-patch</a><br>
<span class="">> discussing the rough way to approach this stuff.<br>
><br>
> Basically - a patch file attached to an email to cfe-commits with "patch"<br>
> in the subject would be great. Patches should include changes to the test<br>
> tree to verify the changes.<br>
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> - David<br>
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</span>So, bugs are ignored and patches can't references bugs? </blockquote><div><br>Patches can/should reference bugs for context, but the easiest way (& easier => more likely to be dealt with) for a patch to be assessed by a community member is for it to be attached to an email, sent to a -commits mailing list, with a test case included in the patch.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Furthermore, nobody is interested in picking up these changes? </blockquote><div><br>That's quite possible, and certainly a major limitation with LLVM/Clang (& I assume to some extent, any open source project, though I haven't worked on many) - if it's not an area of the project that anyone particularly cares about/is invested in, it tends to rot, patches or not. Those who haven't worked in the area don't feel compelled to delve into it to understand the merits or possible issues with the patch.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Since I'm not interested in delving back into the libclang source, what's the best way to just make sure my bugs (which actually contain fixes and test applications) don't get ignored?<br></blockquote><div><br>I don't know of a way. Nature of the project is that most people who work on it have their own goals & work on those - we all do some amount of community stewardship (reviewing other people's patches, etc) but usually in a more give-and-take (review other people's patches so ours will be reviewed) which leaves newcomers or people not interested in general community involvement, out in the cold.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There is clearly a set of issues with libclang which have existed for some time without any changes; could it be that people submitting bug reports (who were kind enough to include patches suggesting how the bugs could be fixed) didn't want to jump through hoops to get noticed?<br></blockquote><div><br>Quite possibly, though we do make some effort to encourage those who add patches to bugs to instead submit them via the commits lists. (not a perfect process in any case - neither the perfect way to do things nor necessarily are we perfect about encouraging the use of that imperfect process)<br><br>- David</div></div></div></div>