[cfe-dev] [llvm-dev] [3.8 Release] Please write release notes!

[Hans Wennborg via cfe-dev]

Thanks! r260718.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Chris Bieneman <beanz at apple.com> wrote:
> Hans,
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> It might be worth putting a mention in the clang release notes about autoconf being deprecated. I’ve attached a patch.
>
> Thanks,
> -Chris
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>> On Feb 11, 2016, at 4:16 PM, Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear lots of people,
>>
>> The first comments on the 3.7 release expressed surprise that there
>> were no changes to the X86 or ARM targets. There had of course been a
>> lot of hard work and many changes, but none of it was mentioned in the
>> release notes.
>>
>> Please help make the release notes more comprehensive this time. The
>> notes are of course not as important as the actual code, but they do
>> get read, and they are a good way of telling users about all the hard
>> work you have done in the past six months.
>>
>> If you made any changes in the 3.8 time span that might be worth
>> mentioning, please add them to the release notes --- it does not have
>> to be big-ticket items. If you saw someone else commit something
>> interesting, prod them to write a note about it.
>>
>> The 3.8-rc2 notes can be seen at [1]. To add something, commit it
>> directly to the branch, or if you prefer, send me a patch or even just
>> an email with some text. I would be very happy if we can get these
>> into good shape by the beginning of next week.
>>
>>
>> Some things that might be worth mentioning, in no particular order:
>> (based partially on Alex Bradbury's LLVM Weekly; thanks!)
>>
>> - Intel, ARM, PowerPC, MIPS, SPARC, Hexagon, ..., target maintainers,
>> please write something about your target.
>>
>> - Eric: should the new C API Changes part of the developer policy be
>> pointed out? Maybe in relation to where we mention changes to the C
>> API?
>>
>> - David: can you write something about the new IR for exception
>> handling? Maybe just point into the ExceptionHandling doc?
>>
>> - Alex L: I've seen a lot of MIR patches but don't know the status.
>> Anything to mention in the release notes?
>>
>> - Dylan: should we mention the new AVR target, or is it too early?
>>
>> - Richard: anything on the C++ front? What's the status on coroutines?
>>
>> - Jonathan and other OpenMP folks: it's no longer behind a flag; would
>> be great to get some notes on this.
>>
>> - Artem: there's been a bunch of CUDA patches. Anything that should be
>> mentioned in the release notes?
>>
>> - Jordan & Anna: any new checkers that should be mentioned?
>>
>> - Chih-Hung: should the notes mention the emutls-style TLS model?
>>
>> - Lang: you did a lot of work on the Kalidoscope tutorial. Maybe we
>> should mention that?
>>
>> .. tell me what I missed :-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hans
>>
>> [1]. http://llvm.org/pre-releases/3.8.0/#rc2.
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