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

[Sean Silva via llvm-dev]

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Jessica Paquette via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Using tags is a really good idea! For example, lld and compiler-rt use tags
to differentiate themselves on the llvm mailing lists, and there's a lot of
benefit to not having the mailing list fragmented.

-- Sean Silva


>
>  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 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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