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