(Narrowing to cvs-ghc for now.) Speaking for myself, I would welcome a code-ownership model along the lines that Ben suggests. If it works well it would a) spread the load b) broaden a genuine sense of ownership c) because of (a) and (b), perhaps encourage more people to participate
What do others think? Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Ben Lippmeier [mailto:b...@ouroborus.net] | Sent: 06 December 2012 10:57 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones | Cc: haskell; glasgow-haskell-us...@haskell.org; Haskell Cafe (haskell- | c...@haskell.org); Simon Marlow | Subject: Re: The end of an era, and the dawn of a new one | | | On 06/12/2012, at 3:56 , Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | | > Particularly valuable are offers to take responsibility for a | > particular area (eg the LLVM code generator, or the FFI). I'm hoping | > that this sea change will prove to be quite empowering, with GHC | > becoming more and more a community project, more resilient with fewer | > single points of failure. | | The LLVM project has recently come to the same point. The codebase has | become too large for Chris Lattner to keep track of it all, so they've | moved to a formal "Code Ownership" model. People own particular | directories of the code base, and the code owners are expected to review | patches for those directories. | | The GHC project doesn't have a formal patch review process, I think | because the people with commit access on d.h.o generally know who owns | what. Up until last week I think it was "SPJ owns the type checker and | simplifier, and SM owns everything else." :-) | | | At this stage, I think it would help if we followed the LLVM approach of | having a formal CODE_OWNERS file in the root path of the repo explicitly | listing the code owners. That way GHC HQ knows what's covered and what | still needs a maintainer. The LLVM version is here [1]. | | Code owners would: | 1) Be the go-to person when other developers have questions about that | code. | 2) Fix bugs in it that no-one else has claimed. | 3) Generally keep the code tidy, documented and well-maintained. | | Simon: do you want a CODE_OWNERS file? If so then I can start it. I | think it's better to have it directly in the repo than on the wiki, that | way no-one that works on the code can miss it. | | I suppose I'm the default owner of the register allocators and non-LLVM | native code generators. | | Ben. | | [1] http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm- | project/llvm/trunk/CODE_OWNERS.TXT?view=markup | | _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
