[llvm-dev] How to get a review for a patch?

[Florian Hahn via llvm-dev]

Hi,

> On Feb 26, 2019, at 3:20 AM, Ralf Jung via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Shoaib,
> 
>> You added the old account for Eli (eli.friedman); I went ahead and switched it
>> to the newer account (efriedma). You can tell it's an old account because if you
>> go to https://reviews.llvm.org/p/eli.friedman/ (which can be accessed by e.g.
>> clicking the eli.friedman in your reviewers list), the last activity is from
>> 2016, whereas https://reviews.llvm.org/p/efriedma/ has recent activity.
>> Hopefully that gets you some activity.
> 
> Thanks a lot! That seems like an easy trap to run into. Is there a way to not
> suggest the old accounts (in the drop-down menu) when adding reviewers?
> 
>> It's also customary to add llvm-commits
>> as a subscriber instead of a reviewer, but that shouldn't make too much of a
>> difference.
> 
> Thanks, I'll try to remember this for next time.
> I did this based on the following text in [the
> docs](https://llvm.org/docs/Phabricator.html#phabricator-request-review-web):
> 
>> Add reviewers (see below for advice). (If you set the Repository field correctly, llvm-commits or cfe-commits will be subscribed automatically; otherwise, you will have to manually subscribe them.)
> 
> I was not aware of there being separate notions of "reviewers" and
> "subscribers", so with this being in the "Add reviewers" not I thought "to
> subscribe" meant "to add as a reviewer".  Actually from what I recall,
> llvm-commits had been added automatically (but I might misremember).
> (I hope this kind of feedback helps to improve the documentation.)

There’s https://llvm.org/docs/Contributing.html <https://llvm.org/docs/Contributing.html> which would ideally contain all relevant info, but it might be hard to discover. Did you have a look at that page?

Cheers,
Florian
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