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1                 GDB Maintainers
2                 ===============
3
4
5                    Overview
6                    --------
7
8 This file describes different groups of people who are, together, the
9 maintainers and developers of the GDB project.  Don't worry - it sounds
10 more complicated than it really is.
11
12 There are four groups of GDB developers, covering the patch development and
13 review process:
14
15   - The Global Maintainers.
16
17     These are the developers in charge of most daily development.  They
18     have wide authority to apply and reject patches, but defer to the
19     Responsible Maintainers (see below) within their spheres of
20     responsibility.
21
22   - The Responsible Maintainers.
23
24     These are developers who have expertise and interest in a particular
25     area of GDB, who are generally available to review patches, and who
26     prefer to enforce a single vision within their areas.
27
28   - The Authorized Committers.
29
30     These are developers who are trusted to make changes within a specific
31     area of GDB without additional oversight.
32
33   - The Write After Approval Maintainers.
34
35     These are developers who have write access to the GDB source tree.  They
36     can check in their own changes once a developer with the appropriate
37     authority has approved the changes; they can also apply the Obvious
38     Fix Rule (below).
39
40 All maintainers are encouraged to post major patches to the gdb-patches
41 mailing list for comments, even if they have the authority to commit the
42 patch without review from another maintainer.  This especially includes
43 patches which change internal interfaces (e.g. global functions, data
44 structures) or external interfaces (e.g. user, remote, MI, et cetera).
45
46 The term "review" is used in this file to describe several kinds of feedback
47 from a maintainer: approval, rejection, and requests for changes or
48 clarification with the intention of approving a revised version.  Review is
49 a privilege and/or responsibility of various positions among the GDB
50 Maintainers.  Of course, anyone - whether they hold a position but not the
51 relevant one for a particular patch, or are just following along on the
52 mailing lists for fun, or anything in between - may suggest changes or
53 ask questions about a patch!
54
55 There's also a couple of other people who play special roles in the GDB
56 community, separately from the patch process:
57
58   - The GDB Steering Committee.
59
60     These are the official (FSF-appointed) maintainers of GDB.  They have
61     final and overriding authority for all GDB-related decisions, including
62     anything described in this file.  The committee is not generally
63     involved in day-to-day development (although its members may be, as
64     individuals).
65
66   - The Release Manager.
67
68     This developer is in charge of making new releases of GDB.
69
70   - The Patch Champions.
71
72     These volunteers make sure that no contribution is overlooked or
73     forgotten.
74
75 Most changes to the list of maintainers in this file are handled by
76 consensus among the global maintainers and any other involved parties.
77 In cases where consensus can not be reached, the global maintainers may
78 ask the Steering Committee for a final decision.
79
80
81                         The Obvious Fix Rule
82                         --------------------
83
84 All maintainers listed in this file, including the Write After Approval
85 developers, are allowed to check in obvious fixes.
86
87 An "obvious fix" means that there is no possibility that anyone will
88 disagree with the change.
89
90 A good mental test is "will the person who hates my work the most be
91 able to find fault with the change" - if so, then it's not obvious and
92 needs to be posted first. :-)
93
94 Something like changing or bypassing an interface is _not_ an obvious
95 fix, since such a change without discussion will result in
96 instantaneous and loud complaints.
97
98 For documentation changes, about the only kind of fix that is obvious
99 is correction of a typo or bad English usage.
100
101
102              GDB Steering Committee
103              ----------------------
104
105 The members of the GDB Steering Committee are the FSF-appointed
106 maintainers of the GDB project.
107
108 The Steering Committee has final authority for all GDB-related topics;
109 they may make whatever changes that they deem necessary, or that the FSF
110 requests.  However, they are generally not involved in day-to-day
111 development.
112
113 The current members of the steering committee are listed below, in
114 alphabetical order.  Their affiliations are provided for reference only -
115 their membership on the Steering Committee is individual and not through
116 their affiliation, and they act on behalf of the GNU project.
117
118         Jim Blandy (Mozilla)
119         Andrew Cagney (Red Hat)
120         Robert Dewar (AdaCore, NYU)
121         Klee Dienes (Apple)
122         Paul Hilfinger (UC Berkeley)
123         Dan Jacobowitz (CodeSourcery)
124         Stan Shebs (CodeSourcery)
125         Richard Stallman (FSF)
126         Ian Lance Taylor (C2)
127         Todd Whitesel
128
129
130                   Global Maintainers
131                   ------------------
132
133 The global maintainers may review and commit any change to GDB, except in
134 areas with a Responsible Maintainer available.  For major changes, or
135 changes to areas with other active developers, global maintainers are
136 strongly encouraged to post their own patches for feedback before
137 committing.
138
139 The global maintainers are responsible for reviewing patches to any area
140 for which no Responsible Maintainer is listed.
141
142 Global maintainers also have the authority to revert patches which should
143 not have been applied, e.g. patches which were not approved, controversial
144 patches committed under the Obvious Fix Rule, patches with important bugs
145 that can't be immediately fixed, or patches which go against an accepted and
146 documented roadmap for GDB development.  Any global maintainer may request
147 the reversion of a patch.  If no global maintainer, or responsible
148 maintainer in the affected areas, supports the patch (except for the
149 maintainer who originally committed it), then after 48 hours the maintainer
150 who called for the reversion may revert the patch.
151
152 No one may reapply a reverted patch without the agreement of the maintainer
153 who reverted it, or bringing the issue to the GDB Steering Committee for
154 discussion.
155
156 At the moment there are no documented roadmaps for GDB development; in the
157 future, if there are, a reference to the list will be included here.
158
159 The current global maintainers are (in alphabetical order):
160
161 Jim Blandy                      [email protected]
162 Joel Brobecker                  [email protected]
163 Kevin Buettner                  [email protected]
164 Andrew Cagney                   [email protected]
165 Daniel Jacobowitz               [email protected]
166 Mark Kettenis                   [email protected]
167 Stan Shebs                      [email protected]
168 Michael Snyder                  [email protected]
169 Ulrich Weigand                  [email protected]
170 Elena Zannoni                   [email protected]
171 Eli Zaretskii                   [email protected]
172
173
174                         Release Manager
175                         ---------------
176
177 The current release manager is: Joel Brobecker  <[email protected]>
178
179 His responsibilities are:
180
181     * organizing, scheduling, and managing releases of GDB.
182
183     * deciding the approval and commit policies for release branches,
184       and can change them as needed.
185
186
187
188                         Patch Champions
189                         ---------------
190
191 These volunteers track all patches submitted to the gdb-patches list.  They
192 endeavor to prevent any posted patch from being overlooked; work with
193 contributors to meet GDB's coding style and general requirements, along with
194 FSF copyright assignments; remind (ping) responsible maintainers to review
195 patches; and ensure that contributors are given credit.
196
197 Current patch champions (in alphabetical order):
198
199         Randolph Chung     <[email protected]>
200
201
202
203                         Responsible Maintainers
204                         -----------------------
205
206 These developers have agreed to review patches in specific areas of GDB, in
207 which they have knowledge and experience.  These areas are generally broad;
208 the role of a responsible maintainer is to provide coherent and cohesive
209 structure within their area of GDB, to assure that patches from many
210 different contributors all work together for the best results.
211
212 Global maintainers will defer to responsible maintainers within their areas,
213 as long as the responsible maintainer is active.  Active means that
214 responsible maintainers agree to review submitted patches in their area
215 promptly; patches and followups should generally be answered within a week.
216 If a responsible maintainer is interested in reviewing a patch but will not
217 have time within a week of posting, the maintainer should send an
218 acknowledgement of the patch to the gdb-patches mailing list, and
219 plan to follow up with a review within a month.  These deadlines are for
220 initial responses to a patch - if the maintainer has suggestions
221 or questions, it may take an extended discussion before the patch
222 is ready to commit.  There are no written requirements for discussion,
223 but maintainers are asked to be responsive.
224
225 If a responsible maintainer misses these deadlines occasionally (e.g.
226 vacation or unexpected workload), it's not a disaster - any global
227 maintainer may step in to review the patch.  But sometimes life intervenes
228 more permanently, and a maintainer may no longer have time for these duties.
229 When this happens, he or she should step down (either into the Authorized
230 Committers section if still interested in the area, or simply removed from
231 the list of Responsible Maintainers if not).
232
233 If a responsible maintainer is unresponsive for an extended period of time
234 without stepping down, please contact the Global Maintainers; they will try
235 to contact the maintainer directly and fix the problem - potentially by
236 removing that maintainer from their listed position.
237
238 If there are several maintainers for a given domain then any one of them
239 may review a submitted patch.
240
241 Target Instruction Set Architectures:
242
243 The *-tdep.c files.  ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) and OS-ABI
244 (Operating System / Application Binary Interface) issues including CPU
245 variants.
246
247 The Target/Architecture maintainer works with the host maintainer when
248 resolving build issues.  The Target/Architecture maintainer works with
249 the native maintainer when resolving ABI issues.
250
251         alpha           --target=alpha-elf ,-Werror
252
253         arm             --target=arm-elf ,-Werror
254                         Richard Earnshaw        [email protected]
255
256         avr             --target=avr ,-Werror
257
258         cris            --target=cris-elf ,-Werror ,
259                         (sim does not build with -Werror)
260
261         frv             --target=frv-elf ,-Werror
262
263         h8300           --target=h8300-elf ,-Werror
264
265         i386            --target=i386-elf ,-Werror
266                         Mark Kettenis           [email protected]
267
268         ia64            --target=ia64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
269                         (--target=ia64-elf broken)
270
271         m32c            --target=m32c-elf ,-Werror
272                         Jim Blandy, [email protected]
273
274         m32r            --target=m32r-elf ,-Werror
275
276         m68hc11         --target=m68hc11-elf ,-Werror ,
277                         Stephane Carrez         [email protected]
278
279         m68k            --target=m68k-elf ,-Werror
280
281         m88k            --target=m88k-openbsd ,-Werror
282                         Mark Kettenis           [email protected]
283
284         mcore           Deleted
285
286         mep             --target=mep-elf ,-Werror
287                         Kevin Buettner          [email protected]
288
289         mips            --target=mips-elf ,-Werror
290
291         mn10300         --target=mn10300-elf broken
292                         (sim/ dies with make -j)
293                         Michael Snyder          [email protected]
294
295         ms1             --target=ms1-elf ,-Werror
296                         Kevin Buettner          [email protected]
297
298         ns32k           Deleted
299
300         pa              --target=hppa-elf ,-Werror
301
302         powerpc         --target=powerpc-eabi ,-Werror
303
304         s390            --target=s390-linux-gnu ,-Werror
305
306         score   --target=score-elf
307                         Qinwei          [email protected]
308
309         sh              --target=sh-elf ,-Werror
310                         --target=sh64-elf ,-Werror
311
312         sparc           --target=sparc64-solaris2.10 ,-Werror
313                         (--target=sparc-elf broken)
314
315         spu             --target=spu-elf ,-Werror
316                         Ulrich Weigand          [email protected]
317
318         v850            --target=v850-elf ,-Werror
319
320         vax             --target=vax-netbsd ,-Werror
321
322         x86-64          --target=x86_64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
323
324         xstormy16       --target=xstormy16-elf
325                         Corinna Vinschen        [email protected]
326
327         xtensa          --target=xtensa-elf
328                         Maxim Grigoriev         [email protected]
329
330 All developers recognized by this file can make arbitrary changes to
331 OBSOLETE targets.
332
333 The Bourne shell script gdb_mbuild.sh can be used to rebuild all the
334 above targets.
335
336
337 Host/Native:
338
339 The Native maintainer is responsible for target specific native
340 support - typically shared libraries and quirks to procfs/ptrace/...
341 The Native maintainer works with the Arch and Core maintainers when
342 resolving more generic problems.
343
344 The host maintainer ensures that gdb can be built as a cross debugger on
345 their platform.
346
347 AIX                     Joel Brobecker          [email protected]
348
349 djgpp native            Eli Zaretskii           [email protected]
350 GNU Hurd                Alfred M. Szmidt        [email protected]
351 MS Windows (NT, '00, 9x, Me, XP) host & native
352                         Chris Faylor            [email protected]
353 GNU/Linux/x86 native & host
354                         Mark Kettenis           [email protected]
355 GNU/Linux MIPS native & host
356                         Daniel Jacobowitz       [email protected]
357 GNU/Linux m68k          Andreas Schwab          [email protected]
358 FreeBSD native & host   Mark Kettenis           [email protected]
359
360
361
362 Core: Generic components used by all of GDB
363
364 tracing                 Michael Snyder          [email protected]
365 threads                 Michael Snyder          [email protected]
366                         Mark Kettenis           [email protected]
367 language support
368   Ada                   Joel Brobecker          [email protected]
369                         Paul Hilfinger          [email protected]
370   C++                   Daniel Jacobowitz       [email protected]
371   Objective C support   Adam Fedor              [email protected]
372 shared libs             Kevin Buettner          [email protected]
373 MI interface            Vladimir Prus           [email protected]
374
375 documentation           Eli Zaretskii           [email protected]
376   (including NEWS)
377 testsuite
378   gdbtk (gdb.gdbtk)     Keith Seitz             [email protected]
379   threads (gdb.threads) Michael Snyder          [email protected]
380   trace (gdb.trace)     Michael Snyder          [email protected]
381
382
383 UI: External (user) interfaces.
384
385 gdbtk (c & tcl)         Fernando Nasser         [email protected]
386                         Keith Seitz             [email protected]
387 libgui (w/foundry, sn)  Keith Seitz             [email protected]
388
389
390 Misc:
391
392 gdb/gdbserver           Daniel Jacobowitz       [email protected]
393
394 Makefile.in, configure* ALL
395
396 mmalloc/                ALL Host maintainers
397
398 sim/                    See sim/MAINTAINERS
399
400 readline/               Master version: ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/
401                         ALL
402                         Host maintainers (host dependant parts)
403                         (but get your changes into the master version)
404
405 tcl/ tk/ itcl/          ALL
406
407
408                 Authorized Committers
409                 ---------------------
410
411 These are developers working on particular areas of GDB, who are trusted to
412 commit their own (or other developers') patches in those areas without
413 further review from a Global Maintainer or Responsible Maintainer.  They are
414 under no obligation to review posted patches - but, of course, are invited
415 to do so!
416
417 PowerPC                 Andrew Cagney           [email protected]
418 CRIS                    Hans-Peter Nilsson      [email protected]
419 IA64                    Jeff Johnston           [email protected]
420 MIPS                    Joel Brobecker          [email protected]
421 m32r                    Kei Sakamoto            [email protected]
422 PowerPC                 Kevin Buettner          [email protected]
423 CRIS                    Orjan Friberg           [email protected]
424 HPPA                    Randolph Chung          [email protected]
425 S390                    Ulrich Weigand          [email protected]
426 djgpp                   DJ Delorie              [email protected]
427                         [Please use this address to contact DJ about DJGPP]
428 tui                     Stephane Carrez         [email protected]
429 ia64                    Kevin Buettner          [email protected]
430 AIX                     Kevin Buettner          [email protected]
431 GNU/Linux PPC native    Kevin Buettner          [email protected]
432 gdb.java tests          Anthony Green           [email protected]
433 FreeBSD native & host   David O'Brien           [email protected]
434 event loop              Elena Zannoni           [email protected]
435 generic symtabs         Elena Zannoni           [email protected]
436 dwarf readers           Elena Zannoni           [email protected]
437 elf reader              Elena Zannoni           [email protected]
438 stabs reader            Elena Zannoni           [email protected]
439 readline/               Elena Zannoni           [email protected]
440 NetBSD native & host    Jason Thorpe            [email protected]
441 Pascal support          Pierre Muller           [email protected]
442 avr                     Theodore A. Roth        [email protected]
443 Modula-2 support        Gaius Mulley            [email protected]
444
445
446                         Write After Approval
447                            (alphabetic)
448
449 To get recommended for the Write After Approval list you need a valid
450 FSF assignment and have submitted one good patch.
451
452 Pedro Alves                                     [email protected]
453 David Anderson                                  [email protected]
454 John David Anglin                               [email protected]
455 Shrinivas Atre                                  [email protected]
456 Scott Bambrough                                 [email protected]
457 Thiago Jung Bauermann                           [email protected]
458 Jan Beulich                                     [email protected]
459 Jim Blandy                                      [email protected]
460 Philip Blundell                                 [email protected]
461 Per Bothner                                     [email protected]
462 Joel Brobecker                                  [email protected]
463 Dave Brolley                                    [email protected]
464 Paul Brook                                      [email protected]
465 Julian Brown                                    [email protected]
466 Kevin Buettner                                  [email protected]
467 Andrew Cagney                                   [email protected]
468 David Carlton                                   [email protected]
469 Stephane Carrez                                 [email protected]
470 Michael Chastain                                [email protected]
471 Eric Christopher                                [email protected]
472 Randolph Chung                                  [email protected]
473 Nick Clifton                                    [email protected]
474 J.T. Conklin                                    [email protected]
475 Brendan Conoboy                                 [email protected]
476 Ludovic Courtès                                        [email protected]
477 DJ Delorie                                      [email protected]
478 Philippe De Muyter                              [email protected]
479 Dhananjay Deshpande                             [email protected]
480 Markus Deuling                                  [email protected]
481 Klee Dienes                                     [email protected]
482 Gabriel Dos Reis                                [email protected]
483 Richard Earnshaw                                [email protected]
484 Steve Ellcey                                    [email protected]
485 Frank Ch. Eigler                                [email protected]
486 Ben Elliston                                    [email protected]
487 Doug Evans                                      [email protected]
488 Adam Fedor                                      [email protected]
489 Brian Ford                                      [email protected]
490 Orjan Friberg                                   [email protected]
491 Nathan Froyd                                    [email protected]
492 Gary Funck                                      [email protected]
493 Paul Gilliam                                    [email protected]
494 Raoul Gough                                     [email protected]
495 Anthony Green                                   [email protected]
496 Matthew Green                                   [email protected]
497 Maxim Grigoriev                                 [email protected]
498 Jerome Guitton                                  [email protected]
499 Ben Harris                                      [email protected]
500 Richard Henderson                               [email protected]
501 Aldy Hernandez                                  [email protected]
502 Paul Hilfinger                                  [email protected]
503 Matt Hiller                                     [email protected]
504 Kazu Hirata                                     [email protected]
505 Jeff Holcomb                                    [email protected]
506 Don Howard                                      [email protected]
507 Nick Hudson                                     [email protected]
508 Martin Hunt                                     [email protected]
509 Jim Ingham                                      [email protected]
510 Baurzhan Ismagulov                              [email protected]
511 Manoj Iyer                                      [email protected]
512 Daniel Jacobowitz                               [email protected]
513 Andreas Jaeger                                  [email protected]
514 Jeff Johnston                                   [email protected]
515 Geoff Keating                                   [email protected]
516 Mark Kettenis                                   [email protected]
517 Marc Khouzam                                    [email protected]
518 Jim Kingdon                                     [email protected]
519 Jan Kratochvil                                  [email protected]
520 Jonathan Larmour                                [email protected]
521 Jeff Law                                        [email protected]
522 David Lecomber                                  [email protected]
523 Robert Lipe                                     [email protected]
524 H.J. Lu                                         [email protected]
525 Michal Ludvig                                   [email protected]
526 Luis Machado                                    [email protected]
527 Glen McCready                                   [email protected]
528 Greg McGary                                     [email protected]
529 Roland McGrath                                  [email protected]
530 Bryce McKinlay                                  [email protected]
531 Jason Merrill                                   [email protected]
532 David S. Miller                                 [email protected]
533 Mark Mitchell                                   [email protected]
534 Marko Mlinar                                    [email protected]
535 Alan Modra                                      [email protected]
536 Jason Molenda                                   [email protected]
537 Pierre Muller                                   [email protected]
538 Gaius Mulley                                    [email protected]
539 Joseph Myers                                    [email protected]
540 Fernando Nasser                                 [email protected]
541 Adam Nemet                                      [email protected]
542 Nathanael Nerode                                [email protected]
543 Hans-Peter Nilsson                              [email protected]
544 David O'Brien                                   [email protected]
545 Alexandre Oliva                                 [email protected]
546 Denis Pilat                                     [email protected]
547 Vladimir Prus                                   [email protected]
548 Qinwei                                          [email protected]
549 Frederic Riss                                   [email protected]
550 Aleksandar Ristovski                            [email protected]
551 Tom Rix                                         [email protected]
552 Nick Roberts                                    [email protected]
553 Bob Rossi                                       [email protected]
554 Theodore A. Roth                                [email protected]
555 Ian Roxborough                                  [email protected]
556 Maciej W. Rozycki                               [email protected]
557 Grace Sainsbury                                 [email protected]
558 Kei Sakamoto                                    [email protected]
559 Mark Salter                                     [email protected]
560 Richard Sandiford                               [email protected]
561 Peter Schauer                                   [email protected]
562 Andreas Schwab                                  [email protected]
563 Keith Seitz                                     [email protected]
564 Carlos Eduardo Seo                              [email protected]
565 Stan Shebs                                      [email protected]
566 Mark Shinwell                                   [email protected]
567 Craig Silverstein                               [email protected]
568 Aidan Skinner                                   [email protected]
569 Jiri Smid                                       [email protected]
570 David Smith                                     [email protected]
571 Stephen P. Smith                                [email protected]
572 Jackie Smith Cashion                            [email protected]
573 Michael Snyder                                  [email protected]
574 Petr Sorfa                                      [email protected]
575 Andrew Stubbs                                   [email protected]
576 Ian Lance Taylor                                [email protected]
577 Gary Thomas                                     [email protected]
578 Jason Thorpe                                    [email protected]
579 Caroline Tice                                   [email protected]
580 Tom Tromey                                      [email protected]
581 David Ung                                       [email protected]
582 D Venkatasubramanian                            [email protected]
583 Corinna Vinschen                                [email protected]
584 Keith Walker                                    [email protected]
585 Kris Warkentin                                  [email protected]
586 Ulrich Weigand                                  [email protected]
587 Nathan Williams                                 [email protected]
588 Bob Wilson                                      [email protected]
589 Jim Wilson                                      [email protected]
590 Elena Zannoni                                   [email protected]
591 Eli Zaretskii                                   [email protected]
592 Wu Zhou                                         [email protected]
593 Yoshinori Sato                                  [email protected]
594
595
596                         Past Maintainers
597
598 Whenever removing yourself, or someone else, from this file, consider
599 listing their areas of development here for posterity.
600
601 Jimmy Guo (gdb.hp, tui)                         guo at cup dot hp dot com
602 Jeff Law (hppa)                                 law at cygnus dot com
603 Daniel Berlin (C++ support)                     dan at cgsoftware dot com
604 Nick Duffek (powerpc, SCO, Sol/x86)             nick at duffek dot com
605 David Taylor (d10v, sparc, utils, defs,
606   expression evaluator, language support)       taylor at candd dot org
607 J.T. Conklin (dcache, NetBSD, remote, global)   jtc at acorntoolworks dot com
608 Frank Ch. Eigler (sim)                          fche at redhat dot com
609 Per Bothner (Java)                              per at bothner dot com
610 Anthony Green (Java)                            green at redhat dot com
611 Fernando Nasser (testsuite/, mi, cli, KOD)      fnasser at redhat dot com
612 Mark Salter (testsuite/lib+config)              msalter at redhat dot com
613 Jim Kingdon (web pages)                         kingdon at panix dot com
614 Jim Ingham (gdbtk, libgui)                      jingham at apple dot com
615 Mark Kettenis (hurd native)                     kettenis at gnu dot org
616 Ian Roxborough (in-tree tcl, tk, itcl)          irox at redhat dot com
617 Robert Lipe (SCO/Unixware)                      rjl at sco dot com
618 Peter Schauer (global, AIX, xcoffsolib,
619   Solaris/x86)                                  Peter.Schauer at mytum dot de
620 Scott Bambrough (ARM)                           scottb at netwinder dot org
621 Philippe De Muyter (coff)                       phdm at macqel dot be
622 Michael Chastain (testsuite)                    mec.gnu at mindspring dot com
623 Fred Fish (global)
624
625
626
627 Folks that have been caught up in a paper trail:
628
629 David Carlton                                   [email protected]
630 Ramana Radhakrishnan                            [email protected]
631
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