[llvm-dev] Email list just for front end developers?

[Jessica Paquette via llvm-dev]

Hi Perry,

> I've noticed that requests for help by people like me who are developing front ends are often lost in the noise in the llvm-dev list. Although LLVM is a wonderful and very productive framework, I’ve found that getting help on my front end has been very difficult, and learning necessary detail about the APIs and the like is often very, very challenging. Perhaps it would be good to set up a mailing list just for front end developers to provide mutual assistance to one another?


I think that it would be fine to post such questions on llvm-dev; if we tag them with, say [frontend-dev], then people that aren’t interested can filter them out easily enough. This would have the effect of allowing us to have a “separate” mailing list/community while *also* having the benefit of not fragmenting the mailing list.

>  That way we would not have to bother people working on optimizers or the back end with our stupid beginner questions, but there would still be a place to go to get assistance.

People shouldn’t be worried about asking beginner questions. Maybe we can tag beginner questions with [beginner] as well? That way people interested in helping beginners can quickly find such questions as well. (It would also probably increase the confidence of newcomers posting on the list.)

We could even add a list of standard tags to the mailing list pages. For example, https://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev <https://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev> could also include a list of common tags to add to emails.

> It might also be nice to have a Wiki. I've learned a bunch of things about how to use the APIs over the last weeks as I've been fighting with the code, but I don't really have any good place to share the information I've learned with other people, so others can't learn from my experience. Some of the things I figured out took hours of work to figure out, and it would be nice to document them so other people don't have to do the same thing.

Please write down everything that confuses you! Even write out a blog post or something! I’d personally be very interested in seeing what you’ve learned/what’s confused you.

- Jessica 
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