[Release-testers] [6.0.0 Release] Release notes nag email

[Rui Ueyama via Release-testers]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 7:47 AM, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:

> Dear everyone,
>
> We're getting close to the 6.0.0 release, but the release notes are
> still in a pretty bad state. You can see the notes for rc2 here:
> http://prereleases.llvm.org/6.0.0/#rc2 (a few things have been added
> since).
>
> When the release happens, a lot of people will look at the notes, so
> it's a good opportunity to mention the work that's happened in the
> past six months.
>
> If you know anything that's worth adding, please commit to the release
> notes on the branch directly, or send me a patch or even a plain email
> with some text and I'll add it.
>
> (The folks mentioned below are bcc on this email. Apologies if you've
> already added notes.)
>
>
> Chandler: The retpoline mitigation is probably one of the more notable
> things. Can you please write something? Maybe we can just link to your
> very comprehensive commit message.
>
> Richard: Is there anything we should add to the Clang release notes?
> Can you please ensure that the cxx status page is updated?
>
> Rui and Rafael: Can you take a look at the LLD release notes?
>

Sure, I'll do that.


> Tobias: We're surfacing the Polly release notes since the last
> release, but right now they're empty. Can you write something?
>
> Alex: There seems to be good release notes for clang-tidy, but do you
> know if there should be notes for the others tools? Who are the right
> people to ping about this?
>
> Ulrich: Want to add something about IBM z14? Or System/Z in general?
>
> Johannes: Want to write something about clang-diff?
>
> Pete: Do you want to write something about the ARC backend?
>
> Gadi: Do you want to write something about your scheduling work?
>
> Ashutosh: Do you want to write something about your scheduling work?
>
> Evgeniy: Do you want to add something about the minimal ubsan runtime?
>
> Sanjay: Do you want to write something about the new fast-math IR flags?
>
>
> Thanks to Alex's LLVM Weekly for highlighting these.
>
> Cheers,
> Hans
>
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