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

[Justin Bogner]

Mikael Persson <mikael.s.persson at gmail.com> writes:
> 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).

Are the CODE_OWNERS files what you're looking for?

http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/CODE_OWNERS.TXT?view=markup
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/CODE_OWNERS.TXT?view=markup