[clangd-dev] DNS for LLVM/clangd index server

[Christian Kühnel via clangd-dev]

Hi folks,

as requested by Tom Stellar, I created a bug for this request:
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48069

Best,
Christian


On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 6:02 PM Sam McCall <sammccall at google.com> wrote:

> Hi llvm-admin folks,
>
> We're developing a "remote index" feature that makes clangd work better on
> large codebases:  clangd queries a shared index server instead of parsing
> the whole project locally.
> It's early days, but our initial target is LLVM itself. We have a public
> instance at 34.107.73.68 - Google is providing a GCP VM to run it on, but
> the indexer/server is part of llvm-project[1].
>
> We'd like to give it a domain name so we can start sharing with early
> testers. Does it make sense to point clangd-index.llvm.org at this server?
> If there are concerns, we could also register a different domain, and
> either revisit once this is more stable or keep it "unofficial"
> indefinitely.
>
> Privacy-wise, we need to write up a policy, but the service accepts
> limited context information needed to serve queries (e.g. the incomplete
> identifier for code completion). It will *record* only coarse aggregate
> statistics like request count/latency distribution/error rate, for
> monitoring health and usefulness.
>
> Happy to discuss more about logistics, privacy, the feature itself or
> anything else.
>
> Cheers, Sam
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/master/clang-tools-extra/clangd/index/remote/README.md
>
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