Getting Involved with the Clang Project

Once you have checked out and built clang and played around with it, you might be wondering what you can do to make it better and contribute to its development. Alternatively, maybe you just want to follow the development of the project to see it progress.

Follow what's going on

Clang is a subproject of the LLVM Project, but has its own mailing lists because the communities have people with different interests. The two clang lists are:

If you are interested in clang only, these two lists should be all you need. If you are interested in the LLVM optimizer and code generator, please consider signing up for llvmdev and llvm-commits as well.

The best way to talk with other developers on the project is through the cfe-dev mailing list. The clang mailing list is a very friendly place and we welcome newcomers. In addition to the cfe-dev list, a significant amount of design discussion takes place on the cfe-commits mailing list. All of these lists have archives, so you can browse through previous discussions or follow the list development on the web if you prefer.

Open Projects

Here are a few tasks that are available for newcomers to work on. This list is provided to generate ideas, it is not intended to be comprehensive. Please ask on cfe-dev for more specifics or to verify that one of these isn't already completed. :)

Please note that the information provided here is not completely thorough. This is intentional. If you plan to work on Clang, we would like you to get involved with the other developers. This will allow us to work together better and will give you a better feel for how things are done.