[cfe-dev] [3.9 Release] Please write release notes!

[Teresa Johnson via cfe-dev]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:

> Dear everyone,
>
> It's time for the release notes nagging email.
>
> We have release notes for LLVM, Clang, clang-tools-extra, lld, and
> Polly. (If there are more, please let me know.)
>
> Most of these are pretty empty files; see e.g. the LLVM one at [1].
> The internet does read these notes when we release, so please help
> make them informative!
>
> If you made any interesting changes during the past six months, or
> know someone who did, please write something for the release notes.
> You can commit them directly to the branch, or send a patch to me and
> I'll happily commit them for you.
>
> If you feel responsible for a particular target, e.g. X86, ARM, MIPS,
> etc., please help give those release notes some love.
>
>
> Here are some examples we might want to mention (thanks LLVM Weekly!).
> If you're cc'd on this email, you're mentioned below.
>
> - Dmitry, Renato: the Clang notes mention abi_tag. Do we want to
> expand the text here a little? Link to the PR?
>
> - Teresa, Mehdi: there's a "Introduction of ThinLTO [..] ping
> Mehdi/Teresa before the release if not done" note, so here's the ping
> :-) We should link to the blog post as well.
>

Will do so later today.


> - Chris Bieneman, there's a "note about autoconf build having been
> removed". Do you want to expand this? :-)
>
> - Danny, George: do you want to add something about MemorySSA?
>
> - Nico, do you want to mention clang-cl's precompiled header support?
>
> - James, do you want to mention the removal of the CppBackend?
>
> - Chris Dewhurst, do you want to mention soft-float SPARC support (and
> potentially other SPARC improvements)?
>
> - Benjamin, should we mention include-fixer somewhere?
>
> Many thanks,
> Hans
>
>
>  [1]
> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_39/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?view=markup
>



-- 
Teresa Johnson |  Software Engineer |  tejohnson at google.com |  408-460-2413
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/attachments/20160803/cf46a517/attachment.html>