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.
LLVM GitHub User Guide: Describes how to use the llvm-project repository on GitHub.
Bisecting LLVM code: Describes how to use git bisect on LLVM’s repository.
Policies on git repositories: Collection of policies around the git repositories.

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.

If you can’t find what you need in these docs, try consulting the Discourse forums. There are also commit mailing lists for all commits to the LLVM Project. The LLVM Community Code of Conduct applies to all these forums and mailing lists.

LLVM Discourse: The forums for all things LLVM and related sub-projects. There are categories and subcategories for a wide variety of areas within LLVM. You can also view tags or search for a specific topic.
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.
LLVM Announcements: If you just want project wide announcements such as releases, developers meetings, or blog posts, then you should check out the Announcement category on LLVM Discourse.

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. The LLVM Community Code of Conduct applies to all online sync-ups.

If you’d like to organize a new sync-up, please add the info in the table below. Please also create a calendar event for it and invite calendar@llvm.org to the event, so that it’ll show up on the LLVM community calendar.

LLVM regular sync-up calls¶
Topic	Frequency	Calendar link	Minutes/docs link
Loop Optimization Working Group	Every 2 weeks on Wednesday	ics	Minutes/docs
RISC-V	Every 2 weeks on Thursday	ics gcal
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	ics	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	Every 8 weeks on Mondays	ics gcal	Minutes/docs
LLVM Embedded Toolchains	Every 4 weeks on Thursdays	ics gcal	Minutes/docs
Clang C and C++ Language Working Group	1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month	gcal	Minutes/docs

Office hours ¶

A number of experienced LLVM contributors make themselves available for a chat on a regular schedule, to anyone who is looking for some guidance. Please find the list of who is available when, through which medium, and what their area of expertise is. Don’t be too shy to dial in!

The LLVM Community Code of Conduct applies to all office hours.

Of course, people take time off from time to time, so if you dial in and you don’t find anyone present, chances are they happen to be off that day.

LLVM office hours¶
Name	In-scope topics	When?	Where?	Languages
Kristof Beyls	General questions on how to contribute to LLVM; organizing meetups; submitting talks; and other general LLVM-related topics. Arm/AArch64 codegen. LLVM security group. LLVM Office Hours.	Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at 9.30am CET, for 30 minutes. ics	Jitsi	English, Flemish, Dutch
Alina Sbirlea	General questions on how to contribute to LLVM; women in compilers; MemorySSA, BatchAA, various loop passes, new pass manager.	Monthly, 2nd Tuesdays, 10.00am PT/7:00pm CET, for 30 minutes. ics gcal	GoogleMeet	English, Romanian
Aaron Ballman	Clang internals; frontend attributes; clang-tidy; clang-query; AST matchers	Monthly, 2nd Monday of the month at 10:00am Eastern, for 30 minutes. ics gcal	GoogleMeet	English, Norwegian (not fluently)
Johannes Doerfert (he/him)	OpenMP, LLVM-IR, interprocedural optimizations, Attributor, workshops, research, …	Every 2 weeks, Wednesdays 10:30am (Chicago Time), for 1 hour. ics	MS Teams	English, German
Tobias Grosser	General questions on how to contribute to LLVM/MLIR, Polly, Loop Optimization, FPL, Research in LLVM, PhD in CS, Summer of Code.	Monthly, last Monday of the month at 18:00 London time (typically 9am PT), for 30 minutes.	Video Call	English, German, Spanish, French
Anastasia Stulova	Clang internals for C/C++ language extensions and dialects, OpenCL, GPU, SPIR-V, how to contribute, women in compilers.	Monthly, 2nd Thursday of the month at 17:00 BST - London time (9:00am PT except for 2 weeks in spring), 1 hour slot.	GoogleMeet	English, Russian, German (not fluently)
Alexey Bader	SYCL compiler, offload tools, OpenCL and SPIR-V, how to contribute.	Monthly, 2nd Monday of the month at 9:30am PT, for 30 minutes.	GoogleMeet	English, Russian
Maksim Panchenko	BOLT internals, IR, new passes, proposals, etc.	Monthly, 2nd Wednesday of the month at 11:00am PT, for 30 minutes.	Zoom	English, Russian

Guidance for office hours hosts ¶

If you’re interested in becoming an office hours host, please add your information to the list above. Please create a calendar event for it and invite calendar@llvm.org to the event so that it’ll show up on the LLVM community calendar.
When starting an office hours session, consider typing something like “Hi, I’m available for chats in the next half hour at video chat URL. I’m looking forward to having conversations on the video chat or here.” on the LLVM chat channels that you are already on. These could include:
- the #office-hours Discord channel.
- IRC
Doing this can help:
- overcome potential anxiety to call in for a first time,
- people who prefer to first exchange a few messages through text chat before dialing in, and
- remind the wider community that office hours do exist.
If you decide to no longer host office hours, please do remove your entry from the list above.

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
- llvmbb - Bot for the main LLVM buildbot master. http://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/console
robot - Bugzilla linker. %bug <number>
clang-bot - A geordi instance running near-trunk clang instead of gcc.

In addition to the traditional IRC there is a Discord chat server available. To sign up, please use this invitation link.

Community wide proposals ¶

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

Moving LLVM Projects to GitHub: Proposal to move from SVN/Git to GitHub.
Bugpoint Redesign: Design doc for a redesign of the Bugpoint tool.
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.

LLVM community calendar ¶

We aim to maintain a public calendar view of all events happening in the LLVM community such as Online Sync-Ups and Office hours. The calendar can be found at https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=calendar@llvm.org and can also be seen inline below:

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