[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] !!! 3.2 Release branch patching and the Code Owners

[Richard Smith]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi Pawel,
>
>
>>> Can you provide some examples of the problems you are seeing?
>>
>>
>> Here is what happens.
>>
>> I get a message "could you please include/add/merge this r16xxxx into
>> 3.2?". And my immediate reaction is sure, no problem this fixes
>> PR/issue/crash so it is important. But are you the code owner
>> and do you approve? So I have to go and start checking because
>> that is the process. In the past few days CODE_OWNERS.TXT
>> on the trunk has been changing while 3.2 has been stable,
>> I work on 3.2 branch so I have sent couple of e-mails
>> to wrong people.
>>
>> Anyway, it was not my intention to cause message storm and this is
>> taking way too much bandwidth on the list. As always, change is
>> causing breakages until we all learn how to do it efficiently.
>> I have now a way to identify the code owners.
>>
>>
>> All I am asking is for the code owners to state clearly that
>> the change they ask for is approved. Couple of examples
>> from real e-mails:
>>
>>
>> approved APPROVED *approved*
>
>
> what if there is no code owner?

There's always an owner:

N: Chris Lattner
E: sabre at nondot.org
W: http://nondot.org/~sabre/
D: Everything not covered by someone else