Getting Involved

LLVM welcomes contributions of all kinds. To get started, please review the following topics:

Contributing to LLVM

An overview on how to contribute to LLVM.

LLVM Developer Policy

The LLVM project’s policy towards developers and their contributions.

LLVM Code-Review Policy and Practices

The LLVM project’s code-review process.

LLVM Community Support Policy

The LLVM support policy for core and non-core components.

Sphinx Quickstart Template

A template + tutorial for writing new Sphinx documentation. It is meant to be read in source form.

Code Reviews with Phabricator

Describes how to use the Phabricator code review tool hosted on http://reviews.llvm.org/ and its command line interface, Arcanist.

How to submit an LLVM bug report

Instructions for properly submitting information about any bugs you run into in the LLVM system.

LLVM Bug Life Cycle

Describes how bugs are reported, triaged and closed.

LLVM Coding Standards

Details the LLVM coding standards and provides useful information on writing efficient C++ code.

Bisecting LLVM code

Describes how to use git bisect on LLVM’s repository.

Development Process

Information about LLVM’s development process.

Creating an LLVM Project

How-to guide and templates for new projects that use the LLVM infrastructure. The templates (directory organization, Makefiles, and test tree) allow the project code to be located outside (or inside) the llvm/ tree, while using LLVM header files and libraries.

How To Release LLVM To The Public

This is a guide to preparing LLVM releases. Most developers can ignore it.

How To Validate a New Release

This is a guide to validate a new release, during the release process. Most developers can ignore it.

How To Add Your Build Configuration To LLVM Buildbot Infrastructure

Instructions for adding new builder to LLVM buildbot master.

Advice on Packaging LLVM

Advice on packaging LLVM into a distribution.

Release notes for the current release

This describes new features, known bugs, and other limitations.

Mailing Lists

If you can’t find what you need in these docs, try consulting the mailing lists.

Developer’s List (llvm-dev)

This list is for people who want to be included in technical discussions of LLVM. People post to this list when they have questions about writing code for or using the LLVM tools. It is relatively low volume.

Commits Archive (llvm-commits)

This list contains all commit messages that are made when LLVM developers commit code changes to the repository. It also serves as a forum for patch review (i.e. send patches here). It is useful for those who want to stay on the bleeding edge of LLVM development. This list is very high volume.

Bugs & Patches Archive (llvm-bugs)

This list gets emailed every time a bug is opened and closed. It is higher volume than the LLVM-dev list.

Test Results Archive (llvm-testresults)

A message is automatically sent to this list by every active nightly tester when it completes. As such, this list gets email several times each day, making it a high volume list.

LLVM Announcements List (llvm-announce)

This is a low volume list that provides important announcements regarding LLVM. It gets email about once a month.

Online Sync-Ups

A number of regular calls are organized on specific topics. It should be expected that the range of topics will change over time. At the time of writing, the following sync-ups are organized:

LLVM regular sync-up calls

Topic

Frequency

Calendar link

Minutes/docs link

RISC-V

Every 2 weeks on Thursday

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Scalable Vectors and Arm SVE

Monthly, every 3rd Tuesday

ics gcal

Minutes/docs

ML Guided Compiler Optimizations

Monthly

Minutes/docs

LLVM security group

Monthly, every 3rd Tuesday

ics gcal

Minutes/docs

CIRCT

Weekly, on Wednesday

Minutes/docs

MLIR design meetings

Weekly, on Thursdays

Minutes/docs

flang

Multiple meeting series, documented here

OpenMP

Multiple meeting series, documented here

LLVM Alias Analysis

Every 4 weeks on Tuesdays

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Minutes/docs

Windows/COFF related developments

Every 2 months on Thursday

Minutes/docs

Vector Predication

Every 2 weeks on Tuesdays, 3pm UTC

Minutes/docs

LLVM Pointer Authentication

Every month on Mondays

ics

Minutes/docs

MemorySSA in LLVM

Monthly, first Monday of the month; 10:30amPT, 1:30pmET, 5:30pmUTC

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Minutes/docs

IRC

Users and developers of the LLVM project (including subprojects such as Clang) can be found in #llvm on irc.oftc.net.

This channel has several bots.

  • Buildbot reporters

  • robot - Bugzilla linker. %bug <number>

  • clang-bot - A geordi instance running near-trunk clang instead of gcc.

Meetups and social events

Besides developer meetings and conferences, there are several user groups called LLVM Socials. We greatly encourage you to join one in your city. Or start a new one if there is none:

How to start LLVM Social in your town

Community wide proposals

Proposals for massive changes in how the community behaves and how the work flow can be better.

LLVM Community Code of Conduct

Proposal to adopt a code of conduct on the LLVM social spaces (lists, events, IRC, etc).

Moving LLVM Projects to GitHub

Proposal to move from SVN/Git to GitHub.

Bugpoint Redesign

Design doc for a redesign of the Bugpoint tool.

“llvm-libc” C Standard Library

Proposal to add a libc implementation under the LLVM project.

Test-Suite Extensions

Proposals for additional benchmarks/programs for llvm’s test-suite.

Variable Names Plan

Proposal to change the variable names coding standard.

Vectorization Plan

Proposal to model the process and upgrade the infrastructure of LLVM’s Loop Vectorizer.

Vector Predication Roadmap

Proposal for predicated vector instructions in LLVM.