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-<div class="doc_title">LLVM Developer Policy</div>
+<h1>LLVM Developer Policy</h1>
<ol>
<li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#policies">Developer Policies</a>
<div class="doc_author">Written by the LLVM Oversight Team</div>
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-<div class="doc_section"><a name="introduction">Introduction</a></div>
+<h2><a name="introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
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-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>This document contains the LLVM Developer Policy which defines the project's
policy towards developers and their contributions. The intent of this policy
is to eliminate miscommunication, rework, and confusion that might arise from
</div>
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-<div class="doc_section"><a name="policies">Developer Policies</a></div>
+<h2><a name="policies">Developer Policies</a></h2>
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+<div>
<p>This section contains policies that pertain to frequent LLVM developers. We
always welcome <a href="#patches">one-off patches</a> from people who do not
routinely contribute to LLVM, but we expect more from frequent contributors
to keep the system as efficient as possible for everyone. Frequent LLVM
contributors are expected to meet the following requirements in order for
LLVM to maintain a high standard of quality.<p>
-</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"> <a name="informed">Stay Informed</a> </div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="informed">Stay Informed</a></h3>
+<div>
<p>Developers should stay informed by reading at least the "dev" mailing list
for the projects you are interested in, such as
<a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">llvmdev</a> for
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"> <a name="patches">Making a Patch</a></div>
+<h3><a name="patches">Making a Patch</a></h3>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>When making a patch for review, the goal is to make it as easy for the
reviewer to read it as possible. As such, we recommend that you:</p>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"> <a name="reviews">Code Reviews</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="reviews">Code Reviews</a></h3>
+<div>
<p>LLVM has a code review policy. Code review is one way to increase the quality
of software. We generally follow these policies:</p>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"> <a name="owners">Code Owners</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="owners">Code Owners</a></h3>
+<div>
<p>The LLVM Project relies on two features of its process to maintain rapid
development in addition to the high quality of its source base: the
<li><b>Chris Lattner</b>: Everything not covered by someone else.</li>
+ <li><b>John McCall</b>: Clang LLVM IR generation.</li>
+
<li><b>Duncan Sands</b>: llvm-gcc 4.2.</li>
</ol>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"> <a name="testcases">Test Cases</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="testcases">Test Cases</a></h3>
+<div>
<p>Developers are required to create test cases for any bugs fixed and any new
features added. Some tips for getting your testcase approved:</p>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"> <a name="quality">Quality</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="quality">Quality</a></h3>
+<div>
<p>The minimum quality standards that any change must satisfy before being
committed to the main development branch are:</p>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection">
- <a name="commitaccess">Obtaining Commit Access</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="commitaccess">Obtaining Commit Access</a></h3>
+<div>
<p>We grant commit access to contributors with a track record of submitting high
quality patches. If you would like commit access, please send an email to
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"> <a name="newwork">Making a Major Change</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="newwork">Making a Major Change</a></h3>
+<div>
<p>When a developer begins a major new project with the aim of contributing it
back to LLVM, s/he should inform the community with an email to
the <a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">llvmdev</a>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"> <a name="incremental">Incremental Development</a>
-</div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="incremental">Incremental Development</a></h3>
+<div>
<p>In the LLVM project, we do all significant changes as a series of incremental
patches. We have a strong dislike for huge changes or long-term development
branches. Long-term development branches have a number of drawbacks:</p>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="attribution">Attribution of
-Changes</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="attribution">Attribution of Changes</a></h3>
+<div>
<p>We believe in correct attribution of contributions to their contributors.
However, we do not want the source code to be littered with random
attributions "this code written by J. Random Hacker" (this is noisy and
<p>Overall, please do not add contributor names to the source code.</p>
</div>
+</div>
+
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-<div class="doc_section">
+<h2>
<a name="clp">Copyright, License, and Patents</a>
-</div>
+</h2>
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-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>This section addresses the issues of copyright, license and patents for the
LLVM project. Currently, the University of Illinois is the LLVM copyright
holder and the terms of its license to LLVM users and developers is the
legal matters but does not provide legal advice. We are not lawyers, please
seek legal counsel from an attorney.</p>
</div>
-</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="copyright">Copyright</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="copyright">Copyright</a></h3>
+<div>
<p>The LLVM project does not require copyright assignments, which means that the
copyright for the code in the project is held by its respective contributors
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="license">License</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="license">License</a></h3>
+<div>
<p>We intend to keep LLVM perpetually open source and to use a liberal open
source license. All of the code in LLVM is available under the
<a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php">University of
</div>
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-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="patents">Patents</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h3><a name="patents">Patents</a></h3>
+<div>
<p>To the best of our knowledge, LLVM does not infringe on any patents (we have
actually removed code from LLVM in the past that was found to infringe).
Having code in LLVM that infringes on patents would violate an important goal
details.</p>
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