[LLVMdev] New linker ownership (original) (raw)

Renato Golin renato.golin at linaro.org
Sun Jul 19 06:04:26 PDT 2015

On 18 July 2015 at 00:51, Jim Grosbach <grosbach at apple.com> wrote:

The goal of CODEOWNERS.txt is to give high level guidance for who to ask questions of, seek out for code review, find for partnering up for collaborating on crazy ideas, etc.. The right person for a great deal of that on LLD+Darwin is Lang, and it would be a shame to have the official listing not reflect that.

I agree with this point of view.

Lang knows the code well, is willing to own it and has direct access to Nick.

It seems to me we should just keep it simple and list both Nick and Lang in CODEOWNERS.txt. Assuming Nick and Lang are both OK with that, of course.

Which file is this? I can't find Nick on any CODE_OWNERS.txt files. And LLD has none.

If Nick is the owner of LLD and Rui owns LLD+COFF+ELF, I can't see why we shouldn't put Lang as LLD+Darwin and let the hierarchical chain mean the rest.

Given that we don't have any strict rules about ownership, and that it doesn't mean the same as "maintainers" in the kernel or GCC, I think we can be a bit relaxed on how we deal with it.

cheers, --renato

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