[llvm] Update the developer policy information on "Stay Informed" to refer to GitHub teams (PR #65798)

Mehdi Amini via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Sep 8 16:26:21 PDT 2023


https://github.com/joker-eph updated https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/65798:

>From 8484051b56360ac449690e88b8e228805e1c321a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mehdi Amini <joker.eph at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 12:58:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update the developer policy information on "Stay Informed" to
 refer to GitHub teams

---
 llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst
index a453601d7ad93d1..3d25ce9488f126e 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst
@@ -46,21 +46,33 @@ quality.
 Stay Informed
 -------------
 
-Developers should stay informed by reading the `LLVM Discourse forums`_.
-If you are doing anything more than just casual work on LLVM, it is suggested that you also
-subscribe to the "commits" mailing list for the subproject you're interested in,
+Developers should stay informed by reading the `LLVM Discourse forums`_ and subscribing
+to the categories of interest for notifications.
+
+Paying attention to changes being made by others is a good way to see what other people
+are interested in and watching the flow of the project as a whole.
+
+Contibutions to the project are made through :ref:`GitHub Pull Requests <github-reviews>`.
+You can subscribe to notification for areas of the codebase by joining
+one of the `pr-subscribers-* <https://github.com/orgs/llvm/teams?query=issue-subscribers>`_
+GitHub teams. This `mapping <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/.github/new-prs-labeler.yml>`_
+indicates which team is associated with a particular paths in the repository.
+
+You can also subscribe to the "commits" mailing list for a subproject you're interested in,
 such as `llvm-commits
 <http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/llvm-commits>`_, `cfe-commits
 <http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits>`_, or `lldb-commits
-<http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/lldb-commits>`_.  Reading the
-"commits" list and paying attention to changes being made by others is a good
-way to see what other people are interested in and watching the flow of the
-project as a whole.
-
-We recommend that active developers monitor incoming issues to our `GitHub issue tracker <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues>`_ and preferably subscribe to the `llvm-bugs
+<http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/lldb-commits>`_.
+
+Missing features and bugs are tracked through our `GitHub issue tracker <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues>`_
+and assigned labels. We recommend that active developers monitor incoming issues.
+You can subscribe for notification for specific components by joining
+one of the `issue-subscribers-* <https://github.com/orgs/llvm/teams?query=issue-subscribers>`_
+teams.
+You may also subscribe to the `llvm-bugs
 <http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/llvm-bugs>`_ email list to keep track
-of bugs and enhancements occurring in LLVM.  We really appreciate people who are
-proactive at catching incoming bugs in their components and dealing with them
+of bugs and enhancements occurring in the entire project.  We really appreciate people
+who are proactive at catching incoming bugs in their components and dealing with them
 promptly.
 
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