[libcxx-dev] Improvements to the libc++ approval policy

[Christopher Di Bella via libcxx-dev]

Thanks Louis, enjoy your time off!

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 16:10, Louis Dionne via libcxx-dev <
libcxx-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I will be taking time off from March 6th 2021 to March 28th 2021. I will
> work a few days here and there during that period to review patches,
> however I will mostly be unavailable. Currently, there is a bottleneck
> around me for approving libc++ patches. However, I don't think it's news
> for anyone, this doesn't scale extremely well and it also creates a heavy
> burden when I have less time than I’d like to give to the community. So I
> think this time off is a great opportunity to try something new and make
> our review process more efficient!
>
> I reached out to some contributors who have been getting involved in the
> review process on their own and they nicely agreed to become co-approvers
> for libc++. Those people are Arthur, Marek, Mark and Zoe (thanks!).
> Whenever any two of them approve a patch, the `libc++` review group will be
> made "green" and you can consider your patch approved and ready to go. This
> doesn't change anything for contributors per se -- you can basically commit
> your patch whenever the `libc++` review group on Phabricator is marked as
> green, as before.
>
> To these new co-approvers, I also think it's important to clarify that
> there are no expectations. We all understand that your involvement in
> libc++ is purely voluntary and I want to make sure that it never transforms
> into a burden.
>
> Libc++ has historically had a very high barrier to entry for contributing.
> I think this change in policy can greatly help lower that barrier without
> reducing the quality of contributions. If at all, I think having a few more
> approvers will force us to document policies and guidelines that were
> previously just in the core maintainers' heads, leading to more consistent
> decisions.
>
> I am excited to try this out and confident that it will be an improvement
> both for the libc++ development community and for the project itself. I
> also want to take this opportunity to thank everybody involved in libc++ at
> any level - I'm very happy to see the community forming around libc++ and
> the project is very lucky to have you all!
>
> Thanks,
> Louis Dionne
>
> _______________________________________________
> libcxx-dev mailing list
> libcxx-dev at lists.llvm.org
> https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libcxx-dev
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/libcxx-dev/attachments/20210303/40ecde44/attachment.html>