1 ========= Binutils Maintainers =========
3 This is the list of individuals responsible for maintenance and update
4 of the GNU Binary Utilities project. This includes the linker (ld),
5 the assembler (gas), the profiler (gprof), a whole suite of other
6 programs (binutils) and the libraries that they use (bfd and
7 opcodes). This project shares a common set of header files with the
8 GCC and GDB projects (include), so maintainership of those files is
9 shared amoungst the projects.
11 The home page for binutils is:
13 http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/binutils.html
15 and patches should be sent to:
19 with "[Patch]" as part of the subject line. Note - patches to the
20 top level configure.in and config.sub scripts should be sent to:
24 and not to the binutils list.
26 --------- Blanket Write Privs ---------
28 The following people have permission to check patches into the
29 repository without obtaining approval first:
40 --------- Maintainers ---------
42 Maintainers are individuals who are responsible for, and have
43 permission to check in changes in, certain subsets of the code. Note
44 that maintainers still need approval to check in changes outside of
45 the immediate domain that they maintain.
47 If there is no maintainer for a given domain then the responsibility
48 falls to the head maintainer (above). If there are several
49 maintainers for a given domain then responsibility falls to the first
50 maintainer. The first maintainer is free to devolve that
51 responsibility among the other maintainers.
96 --------- CGEN Maintainers -------------
98 CGEN is a tool for building, amongst other things, assemblers,
99 disassemblers and simulators from a single description of a CPU.
100 It creates files in several of the binutils directories, but it
101 is mentioned here since there is a single group that maintains
102 CGEN and the files that it creates.
104 If you have CGEN related problems you can send email to;
108 The current CGEN maintainers are:
110 Doug Evans, Ben Elliston, Frank Eigler
112 --------- Write After Approval ---------
114 Individuals with "write after approval" have the ability to check in
115 changes, but they must get approval for each change from someone in
116 one of the above lists (blanket write or maintainers).
118 [It's a huge list, folks. You know who you are. If you have the
119 *ability* to do binutils checkins, you're in this group. Just
120 remember to get approval before checking anything in.]
122 ------------- Obvious Fixes -------------
124 Fixes for obvious mistakes do not need approval, and can be checked in
125 right away, but the patch should still be sent to the binutils list.
126 The definition of obvious is a bit hazy, and if you are not sure, then
127 you should seek approval first. Obvious fixes include fixes for
128 spelling mistakes, blatantly incorrect code (where the correct code is
129 also blatantly obvious), and so on. Obvious fixes should always be
130 small, the larger they are, the more likely it is that they contain
131 some un-obvious side effect or consequence.
133 --------- Branch Checkins ---------
135 If a patch is approved for check in to the mainline sources, it can
136 also be checked into the current release branch. Normally however
137 only bug fixes should be applied to the branch. New features, new
138 ports, etc, should be restricted to the mainline. (Otherwise the
139 burden of maintaining the branch in sync with the mainline becomes too
140 great). If you are uncertain as to whether a patch is appropriate for
141 the branch, ask the branch maintainer. This is:
145 -------- Testsuites ---------------
147 In general patches to any of the binutils testsuites should be
148 considered generic and sent to the binutils mailing list for
149 approval. Patches to target specific tests are the responsibility the
150 relevent port maintainer(s), and can be approved/checked in by them.
151 Other testsuite patches need the approval of a blanket-write-priveleges
154 -------- Configure patches ----------
156 Patches to the top level configure files (config.sub & config.guess)
157 are not the domain of the binutils project and they cannot be approved
158 by the binutils group. Instead they should be submitted to the config