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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/09/2015 11:30 AM, Mikael Persson
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<div>Hi LLVM/Clang devs,</div>
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<div>Does LLVM / Clang have some sort of publicly-available
organigram of its maintainers? Something like the Linux kernel
maintainers tree (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS">https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS</a>).</div>
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<div>I find this to be a pretty big entry barrier for people
trying to contribute or help with LLVM or Clang. It says all
over the submission process description and requirements that
patches have to be reviewed by maintainers, that they can be
contacted for help and things along those lines. But if I'm
working on some specific part of llvm/clang, how on Earth am I
supposed to know who is the appropriate maintainer to contact
or tag on patches or questions for that specific part / module
of llvm/clang?</div>
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Take a look at either CODE_OWNERS.TXT or the revision history for
the files you want to change. This is in the documentation
somewhere, but if you have specific spots you think it should live
and it doesn't, please list them. I'd be happy to update the
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<div>It leaves a kind of "private club" impression, where
there's a facade of openness to community contributions with
an effective restriction to "insiders". As an outsider trying
to contribute some patch(es), I can say that the hurdles are
too much (e.g., contributing patches to Boost is like a walk
in the park in comparison to LLVM/Clang).</div>
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If you have specific concrete suggestions on how to reduce this
impression, please list them.<br>
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<div>Mikael.</div>
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