[llvm-dev] [3.9 Release] Please write release notes!

[Teresa Johnson via llvm-dev]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Teresa Johnson <tejohnson at google.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:
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>> Dear everyone,
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>> It's time for the release notes nagging email.
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>> We have release notes for LLVM, Clang, clang-tools-extra, lld, and
>> Polly. (If there are more, please let me know.)
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>> Most of these are pretty empty files; see e.g. the LLVM one at [1].
>> The internet does read these notes when we release, so please help
>> make them informative!
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>> If you made any interesting changes during the past six months, or
>> know someone who did, please write something for the release notes.
>> You can commit them directly to the branch, or send a patch to me and
>> I'll happily commit them for you.
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>> If you feel responsible for a particular target, e.g. X86, ARM, MIPS,
>> etc., please help give those release notes some love.
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>> Here are some examples we might want to mention (thanks LLVM Weekly!).
>> If you're cc'd on this email, you're mentioned below.
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>> - Dmitry, Renato: the Clang notes mention abi_tag. Do we want to
>> expand the text here a little? Link to the PR?
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>> - Teresa, Mehdi: there's a "Introduction of ThinLTO [..] ping
>> Mehdi/Teresa before the release if not done" note, so here's the ping
>> :-) We should link to the blog post as well.
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> Will do so later today.
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Done in r277628.

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>> - Chris Bieneman, there's a "note about autoconf build having been
>> removed". Do you want to expand this? :-)
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>> - Danny, George: do you want to add something about MemorySSA?
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>> - Nico, do you want to mention clang-cl's precompiled header support?
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>> - James, do you want to mention the removal of the CppBackend?
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>> - Chris Dewhurst, do you want to mention soft-float SPARC support (and
>> potentially other SPARC improvements)?
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>> - Benjamin, should we mention include-fixer somewhere?
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>> Many thanks,
>> Hans
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>>  [1]
>> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_39/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?view=markup
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