<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 24, 2016, at 12:57 PM, Chandler Carruth via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Subject kinda says it all. Here is my rationale:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The test-suite is really weird relative to the rest of the LLVM project:</div><div class="">1) It contains all manner of crazily licensed code.<br class=""></div><div class="">2) We don't really care about the history at all. Any concerns around linear history or bisection are pretty much irrelevant.</div><div class="">3) We don't ever plan to have LLVM code move into or out from the test-suite</div><div class="">4) Its already big, and really should be much bigger. We shouldn't have incentives to keep stuff out of the test suite because of size, hosting cost, or anything else.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For all of these reasons, and also because I'd like to see how well (or rather, how poorly) a service like GitHub actually works for the project, it seems like splitting the test-suite out of the current subversion repository and moving it there is the right call.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I chatted with folks on the board, this made sense to them as well, and I've made sure we have a reasonable LLVM organization set up on GitHub and all the board members are on it: <a href="https://github.com/llvm" class="">https://github.com/llvm</a> (I think only my membership is public at the moment).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is still plenty to figure out about how to manage this on github, </div></div></div></blockquote>Thank for pointing out this part. We certainly need a discussion on how to handle a git repo, but that can be after others have chimed in on this post.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">but before doing anything else I just wanted to shoot an email and see if folks like this idea.</div></div></div></blockquote>Sounds good. +1 from me for all the various reasons you already stated.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Pete<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class="">-Chandler</div></div>
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