[LLVMdev] Oversight group for LLVM

[Vikram S. Adve]

Hello everyone,

The LLVM project has evolved significantly since our first public 
release in Oct. 2003.  Most importantly, we've gained many new users 
and several active contributors, and we want to encourage and support 
them and attract more.   At the same time, the software itself has 
undergone some significant changes and improvements, and been ported to 
new platforms.  We expect that both the community and the software will 
continue evolve significantly over time.

We feel that this would be a good time to establish a small oversight 
group to manage the continued development, distribution, and 
community-building process for LLVM.  Our broad aim is to foster the 
wider adoption and growth of LLVM, and encourage participation and 
contributions from both UIUC and non-UIUC users.  We do *not* want to 
create a bureaucracy, and definitely don't want the oversight group to 
get involved in approving each patch or even significant check-ins.  
Instead, this group will focus on higher level issues like identifying 
problems and opportunities that make users' lives easier, finding ways 
to attract new users and new contributors, and evaluating major design 
changes.

We have put up a Web page that describes the mission and some of the 
specific goals of this group:
	http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/Oversight.html
Comments or suggestions are welcome; please send them to 
oversight at llvm.cs.uiuc.edu.

--Vikram, Chris, Misha, and Reid