[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D156949: [lldb] Update LLDB Code Ownership

Jonas Devlieghere via Phabricator via lldb-commits lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Aug 3 08:54:26 PDT 2023


JDevlieghere added inline comments.


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Comment at: lldb/CodeOwners.rst:7-8
+particular part of LLDB are reviewed, either by themself or by someone else.
+They are also the gatekeepers for their part of LLDB, with the final word on
+what goes in or not.
+
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DavidSpickett wrote:
> JDevlieghere wrote:
> > DavidSpickett wrote:
> > > This could be taken to mean every review must have approval from a code owner, on top of whatever other review has been done. Is that the intent? Someone coming from a project with strong maintainer rules (e.g. GDB, so I gather) may take it that way.
> > I copied this from the Clang `CodeOwners.rst` with the aim of being consistent, but I'm happy to tweak it. We  could qualify the last sentence with something like "when consensus cannot be reached" or if we think "gatekeeper" is too strong of a work maybe we can use "tie-breaker", though I like that the former implies a sense of duty. Happy to take suggestions!
> My understanding was that llvm in general didn't have this hard requirement for an owner to acknowledge every review.
> 
> So yeah:
> "They are also the gatekeepers for their part of LLDB, with the final word on what goes in or not when consensus cannot be reached."
> 
> Sounds good to me.
> My understanding was that llvm in general didn't have this hard requirement for an owner to acknowledge every review.

Yup, that's my understanding as well!



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