[LLVMdev] RFC: Code Ownership

[Chris Lattner]

On Nov 11, 2012, at 5:13 PM, Meador Inge <meadori at codesourcery.com> wrote:

> On Nov 11, 2012, at 12:44 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 10, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Joe Abbey <jabbey at arxan.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Chris's "keynote" at the LLVM Developers' Conference included a call for code owners, and my company has a heavy dependency on Bitcode, I propose taking ownership of:
>>> 
>>> lib/Bitcode/*
>>> include/Bitcode/*
>>> 
>>> This means that I'll be committed to documenting (yay) the implementation and responsible for reviewing patches and commits, as well as overall code quality and maintenance.  It's a small section of the overall tree, and I realize that it is a critical portion that touches virtually the whole project.
>> 
>> This sounds like a great idea to me.  Unless someone objects in the next few days, consider it yours :).  Please update docs/DeveloperPolicy to list yourself in the owners section.  Thanks Joe,
> 
> Is there a particular sub-system size that makes sense to mark as owned?  I have been reworking the library call
> simplification infrastructure recently and will be happy to sign up as an owner for that.

I think that "directory level" is the right granularity.  If you're interested in signing up to maintain and review the whole instcombine library, that would be a great level.  To see what this entails, see:
http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#code-owners

-Chris