[LLVMdev] Oversight group for LLVM

[Henrik Bach]

Hi OG,

I think it first of all would be nice, if we could supplement this group 
with a discussion list on this topic. The reason for this isn't to ad more 
bureacracy, but to present public ideas and visions to a broader forum and I 
belive in that the more elaboration within a broader forum the better the 
ideas will get and the more people will get committed to start and finish 
the task.

Moreover, as a side effect, the sooner some ideas get publish in the public 
the bigger are the chances that no one will get a patent on the idea.

Off course the OG still decides the way llvm should go.

Henrik.

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----Original Message Follows----
From: "Vikram S. Adve" <vadve at cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
To: LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: [LLVMdev] Oversight group for LLVM
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:34:37 -0600

Hello everyone,

The LLVM project has evolved significantly since our first public release in 
Oct. 2003.  Most importantly, we've gained many new users and several active 
contributors, and we want to encourage and support them and attract more.   
At the same time, the software itself has undergone some significant changes 
and improvements, and been ported to new platforms.  We expect that both the 
community and the software will continue evolve significantly over time.

We feel that this would be a good time to establish a small oversight group 
to manage the continued development, distribution, and community-building 
process for LLVM.  Our broad aim is to foster the wider adoption and growth 
of LLVM, and encourage participation and contributions from both UIUC and 
non-UIUC users.  We do *not* want to create a bureaucracy, and definitely 
don't want the oversight group to get involved in approving each patch or 
even significant check-ins.  Instead, this group will focus on higher level 
issues like identifying problems and opportunities that make users' lives 
easier, finding ways to attract new users and new contributors, and 
evaluating major design changes.

We have put up a Web page that describes the mission and some of the 
specific goals of this group:
	http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/Oversight.html
Comments or suggestions are welcome; please send them to 
oversight at llvm.cs.uiuc.edu.

--Vikram, Chris, Misha, and Reid

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