[llvm-dev] RFC: Move the test-suite LLVM project to GitHub?

[John Criswell via llvm-dev]

On 2/24/16 4:25 PM, Matthias Braun via llvm-dev wrote:
> I don't really care where the repository is located, but I do have 
> some comments on the future test-suite directions:
>
>> On Feb 24, 2016, at 12:57 PM, Chandler Carruth via llvm-dev 
>> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Subject kinda says it all. Here is my rationale:
>>
>> The test-suite is really weird relative to the rest of the LLVM project:
>> 1) It contains all manner of crazily licensed code.
> That's indeed a good reason to move the repository away.

I don't see that as a reason to move the repository.  Where a repository 
lives and what format it uses is an orthogonal issue to what license the 
software within the repository is allowed to use. There are policies on 
what licenses can be used for Clang and LLVM code; the policy for the 
allowed licenses in test-suite is just different.

>
>> 2) We don't really care about the history at all. Any concerns around 
>> linear history or bisection are pretty much irrelevant.
> We do care about the history. Sometimes benchmarks get fixed or 
> tweaked which may change the results, we should be able to dig into 
> the history to see what happened when. In any way retaining the 
> history wouldn't be a problem, would it?

I think Chandler's point (Chandler, please correct me if I'm wrong) is 
that it's not important to a) match the test suite revision numbers to 
LLVM source code revision numbers and b) copy the SVN history to the 
Github repository.

Regards,

John Criswell

-- 
John Criswell
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/criswell

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