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On 11.2.2022 1.36, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> As you may have noticed, I'm practically maintaining LLVM all by myself. |
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> This is a really tedious, time consuming and ungrateful task, and I'm |
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> pretty close to burnout. I'd really appreciate some help. |
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> The problem with LLVM that it's a really huge, rapidly moving forward |
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> (and breaking things) project. It needs frequent testing as regressions |
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> happen frequently, and we have a good chance of having somebody else fix |
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> it if we report them early. At the same time, testing takes a lot of |
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> time. While ccache is pretty much a must, it doesn't help much long |
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> term as the code is changing frequently and invalidating the cache. |
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> On top of this, there's almost-overlapping release process and Gentoo |
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> slotting that's working so-so at best. After I've pushed LLVM 13.0.1 |
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> final, I've had to immediately start testing 14.x and barely managed to |
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> get some fixes in before rc1. Now 14.0.0 is expected soon, |
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> simultaneously major changes are happening on the main branch |
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> (i.e. 15.x) that also need testing and adjusting the ebuilds to. |
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Would it help at all to not always support different _rc's and .9999s? |
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Or would that just bite "us" (as in Gentoo) back with a delay? |
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> 6. Work on setting up and configuring a buildbot for Gentoo LLVM builds. |
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> This is some effort and I don't have the time to learn how to do that. |
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> You'll probably need to set up a local instance and figure out how to |
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> set our builds before submitting anything upstream; in my experience |
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> they aren't very responsive to buildbot changes, so ideally we need to |
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> flesh out any problems early. |
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GSOC-worthy project? |
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> Yes, that's a lot of work. I can't do it all myself, I'm already doing |
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> too much and this is having negative impact on my health. I really need |
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> help with this. |
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I wonder if llvm and toolchain projects should join - not that there's |
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probably anyone in toolchain interested/capable of doing llvm/clang |
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currently. But they'd be the next with knowledge for at least simplest |
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version bumps if you lay back a bit. Remember this is just a hobby - |
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even though your work is very much appreciated, not worth of wearing |
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yourself out over. |
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-- juippis |
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