[docs] Adding a Support Policy
As discussed in the mailing list [1-4], we need a separation of support tiers when requiring support from the whole community versus a sub-community. Essentially, if a sub-community is active enough and takes maintenance into their own internal costs without affecting other parts of the community's maintenance costs, then code that is not immediately relevant to all parts (ie. not released, actively tested, etc) can still find its way into the LLVM main repository without major pain points. The main benefit is to reduce the maintenance cost that those sub-communities have outside of LLVM (for example, in duplicating common code, applying the same patches on top of multiple user repositories or downstream projects). This document outlines the components and responsibilities of the sub-communities with regards to maintenance costs and how they affect the rest of the community. It also adds an addendum on removal policies, which expand the existing "new target removal" policy into something more generic, to encompass any piece of code, scripts or documents in the repository. [1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-October/146249.html [2] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-November/146335.html [3] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-October/146138.html [4] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-November/146298.html
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