[llvm-dev] Whose responsibility is it to maintain tests using experimental backends?

[James Henderson via llvm-dev]

Thanks. I've put a patch up for review to clarify the policy. See
https://reviews.llvm.org/D74538.

James

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 20:44, Philip Reames via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

>
> On 2/12/20 9:43 AM, Alex Bradbury via llvm-dev wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 15:36, Jordan Rupprecht via llvm-dev
> > <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >> https://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#new-targets says that
> experimental backends should be supported by an active community, in part
> by providing build bots and fixing bugs related to the backend. So while it
> doesn't *explicitly* say things about patches that only break those
> backends, I think reading the spirit of that policy says that it's the
> responsibility of the experimental backend's owners to fix the issue. You
> can still be nice and fix the issue yourself, but if you can't, that isn't
> grounds for anyone to revert the patch.
> > This is absolutely my understanding. If we need to update the
> > developer policy to make it more explicit, we should do so.
>
> Same here.
>
> Philip
>
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