[llvm-dev] [PITCH] Improvements to LLVM Decision Making

[James Henderson via llvm-dev]

Overall, this sounds like a good proposal to me. I think I have some mild
concerns regarding the decision making body, as I can't help but suspect
that such a body will inevitably focus their decisions based on the
opinions of the louder or more well known members of the community. While
to a certain extent that may be appropriate (the more well-known members
will typically have greater experience), I think it's important to make
sure that the less well-known etc are not ignored completely. I don't have
any concrete suggestions though, and I do agree that a decision making body
would help clarify things if nothing else.

One other thought: any formal review period needs to be long enough for
people to contribute to if they have any annual leave from work or
whatever. For example, if the review period were to be set to two weeks,
I'd have missed proposals made at the start of roughly 2-3 different 2 week
periods last year. It would have been worse for 1 week. On the other hand,
a 3 week period would have meant I'd be able to read and respond to every
review. Note this is just an example - I'm not concretely suggesting 3
weeks; perhaps it should be longer for bigger changes etc?

On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 06:59, Chris Lattner via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Numerous people have been bringing up challenges with consensus driven
> decision making in the LLVM community.  After considering this and seeing
> the frustrations it is causing many people, I think we should make a formal
> process change to help improve decision making going forward.
>
> Here is the outline of the draft proposal
> <https://gist.github.com/lattner/e3679998a7609c99b1243f09d30f0132>.
> Caveats: this is itself just a draft proposal to inspire discussion not a
> mandate - I welcome feedback, thoughts and concerns, ideas of how to make
> this better, or better ideas/approaches overall on how we can level up the
> community.
>
> Please let me know what you think, thanks!
>
> -Chris
>
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