<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Following up on the extensive discussions since January, many of us would like to put in place a process to improve LLVM’s decision making process for contentious issues. I’ve put together a proposal for how this works, and am recursively using it to get feedback on the process itself. Thank you to the many people who contributed great ideas and improvements during the pitch phases and early drafts of the doc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Because this is a weird case, I’m not setting up the standard review manager team for this. We’ll wing it, and if it doesn’t work out, we can try again.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">——</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Hello LLVM community,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The review of "Introduce a new LLVM process to resolve contentious decisions" begins now and runs through </div><div class="">June 12, 2020. The proposal is <a href="https://github.com/llvm/llvm-www/blob/master/proposals/LP0001-LLVMDecisionMaking.md" class="">available online</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Feedback is an important part of the LLVM Proposal process. All review feedback</div><div class="">should be either on this forum thread or, if you would like to keep your feedback</div><div class="">private, directly to one of the review managers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">**What goes into a review?**</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The goal of the review process is to improve the proposal under review through</div><div class="">constructive criticism and, eventually, determine the direction of LLVM. When </div><div class="">writing your response, here are some questions you might want to answer in your</div><div class="">review:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* What is your evaluation of the proposal? What positive or negative </div><div class=""> implications would accepting this have?</div><div class="">* Do you have experience from other communities that relates to this </div><div class=""> issue and is important to consider?</div><div class="">* How involved have you been in the LLVM project? Frequent contributor, </div><div class=""> occasional contributor, user of LLVM libraries, user of LLVM-based tools,</div><div class=""> or other?</div><div class="">* Self Evaluation: How much effort did you put into your review and how</div><div class=""> knowledgeable are you about this area? For example, a quick reading or an </div><div class=""> in-depth study?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In addition to your opinion and thoughts, please include any additional </div><div class="">framing that may be useful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris Lattner</div><div class="">Review Manager</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>