[llvm-dev] Allowing PRs on GitHub for some subprojects

Wed Mar 4 05:15:15 PST 2020

> On Mar 3, 2020, at 18:48, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm one of those people ;)

That's not something to be proud of if you expect a maintainer to commit on your behalf. If you commit yourself, then whatever.

Louis

> 
> -eric
> 
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 2:20 PM Louis Dionne via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
> 
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> > On Mar 3, 2020, at 17:16, Shoaib Meenai <smeenai at fb.com <mailto:smeenai at fb.com>> wrote:
> > 
> > `arc patch` should preserve the author information in the original commit, if there was any. At least it has in my experience.
> 
> Yes, but I think people can upload raw patches to Phabricator without using `arc diff`. I know I ran into one of these just last week where I used Johannes' script (thanks!) and ended up still having to find the committer's email by other means.
> 
> Louis
> 
> > 
> > On 3/3/20, 1:44 PM, "llvm-dev on behalf of Louis Dionne via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org> on behalf of llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> On Feb 20, 2020, at 14:25, Johannes Doerfert <johannesdoerfert at gmail.com <mailto:johannesdoerfert at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> 
> >> On 02/20, Louis Dionne via llvm-dev wrote:
> >>> I know there has been significant discussion about "moving" from
> >>> Phabricator to GitHub reviews and pull requests, etc. I'm not
> >>> suggesting that we do anything in terms of global LLVM policy.
> >>> However, as a maintainer of libc++, I commit __a lot__ of other
> >>> people's code for them. It would be a huge time saver for me if I
> >>> could nicely suggest to contributors (not force them) to use PRs
> >>> instead of Phabricator for their contributions. It would also handle
> >>> commit attribution properly, which is a pain right now.
> >> 
> >> Don't take this as me telling you it is "actually simple". I am
> >> interested what about the contribution is problematic? If the libc++
> >> system doesn't have more requirements than the rest of LLVM there might
> >> be ways to make it less painful. FWIW, here is what I do, and I know not
> >> everyone wants to use `arc`. Ina script this could potentially reduce
> >> the pain. Again, this is not meant to tell you it is simple or your
> >> problems are not real.
> >> 
> >> arc patch DXXXX
> >> git pull --rebase origin master
> >> arc amend
> >> arcfilter        // see below
> >> git llvm push master
> >> 
> >> 
> >> arcfilter () { git log -1 --pretty=%B | awk '/Reviewers:|Subscribers:/{p=1} /Reviewed By:|Differential Revision:/{p=0} !p && !/^Summary:/' | git commit --amend -F - }
> > 
> >    Thanks, this indeed solves some of my problems, however not entirely. When people submit contributions without an email address, I still have to do some digging to find out how to attribute the change. This shouldn't be something I even have to think about.
> > 
> >    Louis
> > 
> >> 
> >>> Would it be possible to allow GitHub PRs to be submitted on the
> >>> monorepo so as to let individual sub-projects deal with it however
> >>> they please? I've spoken to numerous people involved in libc++
> >>> development and they would like to start submitting PRs (and for the
> >>> others, we'll still accept Phabricator reviews). Perhaps it is
> >>> possible to setup some kind of filter such that PRs touching only
> >>> libcxx/ and libcxxabi/ can be submitted, but otherwise they're closed
> >>> by the bot?
> >> 
> >> TBH, I feel this is yet another way of splitting the community and in
> >> the end complicating things even more. I mean, since recently if you
> >> want to ask a question there were the *-dev lists and the IRC. Now we
> >> have discourse, discord on top of that with some people monitoring only
> >> one of these and others required to monitor both. Duplicating the way we
> >> do reviews is similarly going to require people that want to be informed
> >> to duplicate their lookups.
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> Johannes
> >> 
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