[LLVMdev] Oversight group for LLVM

[Vikram Adve]

As Chris said, most issues should continue to be discussed on llvmdev.  
In addition to the two goals he mentioned, I think an oversight group 
can also help ensure that we are proactive in finding opportunities to 
attract new users and contributors.

--Vikram
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~vadve
http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/

On Jan 8, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Henrik Bach wrote:
>> I think it first of all would be nice, if we could supplement this 
>> group with a discussion list on this topic. The reason for this isn't 
>> to ad more bureacracy, but to present public ideas and visions to a 
>> broader forum and I belive in that the more elaboration within a 
>> broader forum the better the ideas will get and the more people will 
>> get committed to start and finish the task.
>
> We will see how it goes, but I think almost everything will continue 
> to be discussed on the main LLVMdev list.  The idea isn't to create an 
> opaque process that no one else understands or can impact.  In my 
> mind, there are two primary purposes of the group:
>
>   1. Give assurance of the long-term viability of LLVM.
>   2. Provide a way to arbitrate disagreements between developers.
>
> I feel that #1 is important to continue to attract new developers, 
> particularly those in the commercial sector.  #2 is important as LLVM 
> grows, because more people working on a project have more chances for 
> conflict.
>
> I hope and expect that the oversight group will end up being extremely 
> low-volume.
>
> -Chris
>
>> ----Original Message Follows----
>> From: "Vikram S. Adve" <vadve at cs.uiuc.edu>
>> Reply-To: LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
>> To: LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
>> Subject: [LLVMdev] Oversight group for LLVM
>> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:34:37 -0600
>>
>> 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
>>
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