[llvm-dev] RFC: Contributing Bazel BUILD files in the "peripheral" support tier

[Renato Golin via llvm-dev]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 23:47, Geoffrey Martin-Noble <gcmn at google.com> wrote:

> Agreed. And I don't care too much where that place is. I was only
> proposing `utils/` at the root based on some feedback complaining about
> mailing-list traffic and offering to propose a move of `llvm/utils/gn` to
> `utils/gn` as a prerequisite if that was preferred. Obviously it's easier
> for me to put it alongside gn in `llvm/utils/bazel`, but I thought since we
> were discussing this it might be a good time to consider whether that's
> actually the best place :-) And at some point I also mentioned that having
> "unsupported" somewhere in the path might help make the support status
> extremely clear, e.g. `utils/unsupported/[bazel|gn]`
>

"unsupported" is perhaps a bit overkill.

It'd probably be easier to start with llvm/utils for now to avoid involving
the GN folks in the initial merge, and then the two sub-communities can
join and move both to the root. Whatever works, though.
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