[llvm-dev] RFC: Adding a staging branch (temporarily) to facilitate upstreaming

[James Y Knight via llvm-dev]

As noted in the other thread, making a new repository under the same user,
which therefore must be unrelated to the original, seems to have downsides
as far as commit duplication on github. Probably the downsides of that are
non-critical (and less bad than a bunch of email spam), but it's still
unfortunate.

It still very much feels to me that the best answer should be to do none of
the above, and rather to explicitly contribute the desired changes without
needing the technical step of pushing the commits somewhere in
github.com/llvm/. Is that truly non-viable? The "plain" non-lawyer reading
of the license does not appear to privilege a "contribution" which is done
via "git push", vs a contribution done via emailing a statement that you
contribute git hash <X>, found at <url> to the mailing list.


On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 8:00 PM Duncan Exon Smith via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Okay, a separate repo called "llvm-project-staging" (and a branch called
> "staging/apple") seems to be the consensus. We'll move ahead with that!
>
> On 2020-Jul-08, at 05:38, Mike Forster <forster at google.com> wrote:
>
> The downsides of an additional project are small. I can see:
> 1) It's not possible to do pull requests from there, because GitHub won't
> treat it as a fork.
> 2) It's still visible to people (
> http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-June/142559.html)
>
> In the end I don't have a strong opinion on whether this is a branch or a
> repository, as long as we move ahead soon.
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 4:29 PM Johannes Doerfert via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 6/30/20 4:02 PM, Duncan Exon Smith via llvm-dev wrote:
>> > Regardless, if a separate repo is preferred, then a better name from
>> our perspective would be "llvm-project-staging" (dropping the "-apple"
>> suffix). We could push a "staging/apple" branch there.
>>
>> +1 for a separate repo with a neutral name and "company" branches.
>>
>>
>> * Unlikely we spam people
>>
>> * Easy to understand from the github page
>>
>> * Invisible to the existing users of llvm-project/llvm
>>
>> * Unlikely to confuse people that have or download llvm (=accidental
>> build of staging/apple)
>>
>>
>> I haven't really seen a downside, though I might have missed something.
>>
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