[LLVMdev] code-owner sporks

[Eli Friedman]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Greg Fitzgerald <garious at gmail.com> wrote:
> David A. Green wrote:
>> I find llvm-commits daunting.  So much that I hesitate to do reviews.
>> As Chris commented, I am not very active on that list.  There's a reason
>> for that beyond lack of time.
>
> So the goal is to make it easier for a member of the community to
> review only commits to a sub-tree that interests them?
>
> Let's say it may or may not be easier for reviewers to monitor the
> Pull Requests of a spork than to write a clever filter for
> llvm-commits.  And we'll also say that it may or may not be easier for
> reviewers to comment on a patch on Github than trying to reference
> code blocks in llvm-commits email.  At this point we really don't know
> if one solution is better than the other, but we have good reason to
> believe Pull Requests might be a big win.  So rather than all the
> talk, can we baby-step forward in a noncommittal way?
>
> How about allowing the code owner to add a line to CODE_OWNERS.TXT of
> the location to submit patches?  If no location is given, assume
> llvm-commits.  If the URI is a Github spork, the contributor should
> make a Pull Request.

This isn't viable; Github pull requests aren't visible on llvm-commits.

-Eli