Seeking primary maintainer for LLVM

David Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Mon Feb 25 09:38:10 UTC 2013



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> From: "Michel Alexandre Salim" <salimma at fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Monday, 25 February, 2013 7:30:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Seeking primary maintainer for LLVM
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> On 25/02/13 13:06, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:49:49AM +0700, Michel Alexandre Salim
> > wrote:
> >> - - Refactorig LLVM's build system to properly use versioned
> >> shared objects. I note that other distributions, and BSD, are
> >> still using static linking, so we appear to be the only ones
> >> attempting to package LLVM properly. - - Dealing with Clang
> >> breaking when GCC is updated, and compatibility issues with
> >> secondary architectures
> >> 
> >> Thanks to Jens for doing the 3.2 update -- and others who've
> >> been contributing packaging patches.
> >> 
> >> Let me know if you're interested, and I'll release the package
> >> then.
> > 
> > I've never looked at llvm internals before, but it would be a fun
> > challenge for me.  I can take it up if you're OK with things being
> > broken occasionally while I figure things out.  Of course, if
> > someone else who has a clue wants to take it up, I'd like it if I
> > could co-maintain.
> > 
> Given that Mesa depends on LLVM, I suppose brokenness in anything but
> Rawhide is not really advisable.
> 
> I'd be happy to give you and Jens co-maintainership though, until a
> more permanent maintainer steps forward (ideally one of those who
> have
> committed semi-regularly before).

I expect myself, ajax or glisse need to step up to this, I'm probably
worst choice at the moment, but I can at least find the time with juhp
to the llvm/mesa lockstep updates.

Dave.


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