diff --git a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst index caa4b31b949c9..0ecf1423e6037 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst @@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ When submitting patches, please do not add confidentiality or non-disclosure notices to the patches themselves. These notices conflict with the LLVM licensing terms and may result in your contribution being excluded. +The LLVM project uses email to communicate to contributors outside of the +GitHub platform about their past contributions. Primarily, our buildbot +infrastructure uses emails to contact contributors about build and test +failures. Therefore, the LLVM community requires contributors to have a public +email address associated with their GitHub commits, so please ensure that "Keep +my email addresses private" is disabled in your +`account settings `_. .. _code review: