[llvm-dev] Updating LLVM Publications Page

[John Criswell via llvm-dev]

On 10/29/17 11:30 AM, Chris Lattner via llvm-dev wrote:
>> On Oct 28, 2017, at 4:45 PM, John Regehr via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> Incidentally, despite what that page says, 2009 was not the peak of llvm-related-and-using publications.  It would be great for someone to do a survey of papers out there and get more papers listed on the page. It would be a great starter project for someone who was interested in contributing to llvm but is just getting started in compilers...
>>> Agreed.  I have a student that might be interested.  I'll check and see.
>> Yes, let's put more thought/work into this. We need to accept that only a tiny fraction of LLVM papers are going to get added by the paper's authors. Searching for LLVM in Google Scholar seems to work well, and I have a standing alert there to tell me about new LLVM papers.
> We added the pubs page (and I force added news papers to it for a long time) because there wasn’t a good external thing to point to.  Would it make sense to “outsource” this to Google Scholar or some other service?

I'm inclined to keep the publications page and to recruit new people to 
help keep it updated.  I think the publications page can help highlight 
to mainline LLVM developers how their work is used by the research 
community.  The page also provides a centralized place for LLVM users to 
advertise their research work that builds upon LLVM. It's mere existence 
points out that research is important to us.

On a related note, it's not important to me that every paper in the 
world using LLVM is listed on the page.  What interests me more is 
having the page advertise the fact that LLVM is used in a wide variety 
of research projects, including communities that have not traditionally 
used compiler techniques, and that it show a strong LLVM presence in the 
research community.  If we can get back into the habit of keeping it 
updated, I think it'll be a nice feature of the web page.

Regards,

John Criswell


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