[llvm-commits] RFC: LLVM incubation, or requirements for committing new backends

[Eli Friedman]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> wrote:
> so this would be something like the linux kernel's "staging" tree?  Well, why
> not.  However another important thing which I think should be extended is the
> notion of "code owners" (corresponding more or less to the linux kernel's
> subsystem maintainers).  Who is the code owner for backends in general?  Maybe
> Evan or Anton?  A new backend shouldn't go in unless OK'd by that code owner.
> But who knows who the right person is?  I think we need to designate code owners
> for all major subsystems, and list them in some easy to find place.

We already have http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#code-owners.
 Is that really too difficult to find?

-Eli