[LLVMdev] LLVM maintainers, code reviews

[Kenneth Uildriks]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 10, 2010, at 3:58 AM, Renato Golin wrote:
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>> On 10 November 2010 07:27, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
>>> I'd like to do more similar ones in the future, and encourage other contributors to also write other blog entries in general.
>>
>> Hi Chris,
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>> After discussing these topics in the dev meeting, I also have some input.
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>> First, blog posts are great for communicating changes and maybe
>> outlining design decisions, but these decisions change over time, and
>> the posts become obsolete.
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> Right.  Jan was specifically asking about the "why things were decided and what the tradeoffs were", which is an inherently a "moment in time" sort of thing.  IMO, this is perfect for a blog post.  Blog posts have the advantage that they are explicitly dated.

I'm a big fan of putting such things *in the code* as comments.  It
does logically go with that bit of code, after all.