[LLVMdev] RFC: Code Ownership

[Justin Holewinski]

On the topic of code owners:

Would it make sense to add target-specific code owners for the codegen
targets?  Some of the targets are more esoteric (e.g. NVPTX, CellSPU,
AMDGPU) and may benefit from more fine-grained code ownership.


On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Renato Golin <rengolin at systemcall.org>wrote:

> On 12 November 2012 15:55, Meador Inge <meadori at codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > Another point to address is whether there can be more than one owner in a
> > particular area.
>
> There might be more than one code expert per area, which can be
> referenced by the code owner, but I wouldn't have more than one owner.
>
> Owning part of the code means you'll have to keep a sharper eye on
> particular changes than others and should raise concerns when they're
> due, and not to take the blame for breaking or charged for fixing
> broken code.
>
> --
> cheers,
> --renato
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Thanks,

Justin Holewinski
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