These nominations were discussed at the LLVM Project Council meeting on July 17. As the Project Council and the Area Team currently lack clarity on the exact scope of responsibilities for lead maintainers, we will be holding off those nominations until the Project Council clarifies those so nominations can be evaluated with more objective criteria.
In the meantime, as agreed during the same meeting, we are proceeding with nominations of category maintainers. As an exception, in absence of lead or any other maintainers for the project, the Area Team may approve the nominations as discussed during the same Project Council meeting.
Action Items:
- nominees: please confirm the nomination by approving the PR; your approval means accepting the burden of maintainership and nothing more;
- everyone: if you have any specific concerns regarding a nominee, please raise them on the PR in such a way that the nomination can be defended; in exceptional cases, you may contact the Area Team via Discourse; if you have concerns that fall under Code of Conduct, please reach out to the Code of Conduct committee.
We will keep these PRs open for a couple of days, but given that there was no specific opposition to these nominations for the two weeks since the initial post, we expect to be able to merge the PRs some time next week. Note that these are PRs just like others and they can be reverted should a major concern arise after merging.
Alex on behalf of the Area Team and Project Council