[cfe-dev] LLVM/Clang Maintainers Organigram??

[AlexDenisov]

Hi, Mikael.
You may find CODE_OWNERS.TXT file at the root directory of project.
Also, as I see, you can just write questions to the mailing list and a person, who takes responsibility and/or has a good domain knowledge, might pick your question/patch and provide some help or advice.
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AlexDenisov
Software Engineer, https://github.com/AlexDenisov

On 9 Jan 2015 at 20:33:27, Mikael Persson (mikael.s.persson at gmail.com) wrote:

Hi LLVM/Clang devs,

Does LLVM / Clang have some sort of publicly-available organigram of its maintainers? Something like the Linux kernel maintainers tree (https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS).

I find this to be a pretty big entry barrier for people trying to contribute or help with LLVM or Clang. It says all over the submission process description and requirements that patches have to be reviewed by maintainers, that they can be contacted for help and things along those lines. But if I'm working on some specific part of llvm/clang, how on Earth am I supposed to know who is the appropriate maintainer to contact or tag on patches or questions for that specific part / module of llvm/clang?

It leaves a kind of "private club" impression, where there's a facade of openness to community contributions with an effective restriction to "insiders". As an outsider trying to contribute some patch(es), I can say that the hurdles are too much (e.g., contributing patches to Boost is like a walk in the park in comparison to LLVM/Clang).

Mikael.
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