[PATCH] D134878: Update developer policy on potentially breaking changes

Louis Dionne via Phabricator via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Sep 29 14:56:21 PDT 2022


ldionne accepted this revision.
ldionne added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst:140
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+* After the change has been committed to the repository, the potentially
+  disruptive changes described in the release notes should be posted to the
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aaron.ballman wrote:
> ldionne wrote:
> > I wonder whether `Announcements` is truly a lower-traffic alternative to `vendors` groups, if we end up posting each potentially breaking change to the list and tagging vendors on each such review. I'm not against posting on Discourse, however it seems to me like basically another equivalent channel of communication for these changes (which might be beneficial, I'm neutral on that).
> The reason we have a split like that is for timing and chattiness. If you're a downstream like Intel has with ICX, you might want to be in `clang-vendors` so that you are involved in conversations about potentially breaking changes. You'll be getting emails for all review comments on that review. But if you're a downstream like a Gentoo package maintainer, you might not want to be *that* involved in the development of the compiler, but still want to know when changes are coming down the pipeline to do early pre-release testing while there's still time to put the brakes on before a release goes out.
Okay, makes sense. Let's go for it.


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