[flang-dev] Helping out with flang

[Richard Barton via flang-dev]

Hi Diana

Welcome - great to have you on board. 

> * Adding more armv8 buildbots if there are any configurations that
> still need to be covered

This would be very welcome. We already have two buildbots up and running and we are trying to add a third and fourth as our available hardware allows. We don't have a concrete roadmap to get more hardware for bots at the moment so if you have machines available today that would be a great help. Carol Concatto is co-ordinating the work so you should sync up with her to figure out how best to maximize configuration coverage across your bots and ours.

> * Making flang more release-friendly (I see there have already been
> some efforts, but do let me know if there's anything left to do here.
> I'm a release tester for arm/aarch64 so I can easily get in the loop)

Flang is not the finished article yet so what we are doing for the LLVM11 release is adding a release note explaining what it can and can’t do [1]. We also need to get the documentation building properly [2] It would be great to get your thoughts on what more/else we should be doing here given your experience as a release tester.

[1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D84864
[2] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/flang-dev/2020-July/000466.html.

Ta
Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: flang-dev <flang-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org> On Behalf Of sameeran
> joshi via flang-dev
> Sent: 6 August, 2020 17:21
> To: Diana Picus <diana.picus at linaro.org>
> Cc: flang-dev at lists.llvm.org
> Subject: Re: [flang-dev] Helping out with flang
> 
> Here are more details on 3rd point - Actual development
> May be someone on the list might help on the other 2 points.
> 
> There could be 4 different areas to work :
> 1. Fortran language related work(parsing and semantic checks) [1], but
> some parts of it could be outdated.
> 2. There's a fir-dev branch [2] - which does lowering and codegen to
> FIR and further lowering to LLVM-IR.
> 3. There's one more area relating to OpenMP related work [3] (parsing,
> semantic, lowering to OpenMP-MLIR dialect, supporting OpenMP-MLIR
> dialect in MLIR).
> 4. New Flang driver [4].
> 
> -Sameeran
> 
> [1] https://github.com/orgs/flang-compiler/projects
> [2] https://github.com/flang-compiler/f18-llvm-project/issues
> [3] https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/flang-dev/2020-July/000446.html
> [4] https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/flang-dev/2020-July/000470.html
> 
> On 8/6/20, Diana Picus via flang-dev <flang-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'd like to know what the flang community could use help with. I see
> > there's activity on many fronts and naturally I don't want to get in
> > anyone's way. What are some open tasks that I could tackle?
> >
> > I could help with any of the following:
> > * Adding more armv8 buildbots if there are any configurations that
> > still need to be covered
> > * Making flang more release-friendly (I see there have already been
> > some efforts, but do let me know if there's anything left to do here.
> > I'm a release tester for arm/aarch64 so I can easily get in the loop)
> > * Actual development - Is there a list of open projects here?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Diana
> >
> > PS: I'm interested in llvm-project/flang, not classic flang, and I
> > only have access to Linux environments at the moment.
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