[LLVMdev] New linker ownership

[David Blaikie]

I rescind my opinion on any aspect of the matter. Hopefully there can be
some good dialog about this on list, but I'll leave it to you guys.

- David

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:06 AM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Lang Hames <lhames at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Rui,
>>>
>>> > so I'd like to be an owner of the new linkers (both for ELF and
>>> COFF), ...
>>>
>>> Sounds good to me.
>>>
>>> Do you mind if I add myself as a code owner for LLD Core / MachO, since
>>> I'll be continuing to work on that?
>>>
>>
>> I'm not very familiar with convention in LLVM, but my understanding is
>> that one needs to became an effective owner by driving development of a
>> project before becoming an official owner, so in that sense you may want to
>> act like an owner and then wait for people to start thinking that you
>> effectively own that portion of the source code?
>>
>
> Yep, pretty much.
>
> It's no big deal for Lang to be contributing substantially in post-commit
> review (& having ready access to Nick will no doubt be helpful there*) for
> a bit before switching ownership.
>
> * It'd be nice to have more lld discussions in public, too, though - the
> project seems to sort of had singular interested parties for a lot of its
> history, so it's lacked community dialog/discussion. (this is just a naive
> view, I haven't followed the project in detail)
>
> - Dave
>
>
>>
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Lang.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:17 AM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 15 July 2015 at 00:08, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> wrote:
>>>> > Historically LLD has been suffered by over-designing and
>>>> over-engineering. I
>>>> > don't want to repeat that again in the new codebase, so I'd like to
>>>> be an
>>>> > owner of the new linkers (both for ELF and COFF), so that I'm
>>>> responsible to
>>>> > ensure all patches are reviewed (whether pre-commit or post-commit) if
>>>> > submitted to one of ELF or COFF directories.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Rui! That'd be great!
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> --renato
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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