[llvm-dev] LLVM COBOL front end question [Re: A friendly question]

[Renato Golin via llvm-dev]

On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 10:20, David Chisnall via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

>   - There's a difference of opinion in the community about the
> importance of being in-tree.


This "conflict" should now be somewhat reduced with the introduction of
incubation projects, which is more official than a "user" project but less
than in the monorepo.

As a first step, a GSoC project could create a side-project seed (on a
private repo) with some support for the language, using close to trunk LLVM.

Later, if the community picks up, there could be enough momentum for an
incubation project in the LLVM Github repo, where more people collaborate
and is under our management.

Only if the project really takes off and has a large subset of our
community caring about it, and frequently testing large amounts of code
against trunk, that it should be considered in the monorepo.

Not small steps, but smaller than in the SVN times... :D

--renato
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