gdb/MAINTAINERS

   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 (CodeSourcery)
 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 (Mozilla)
 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 Kevin Buettner                  [email protected]
 163 Andrew Cagney                   [email protected]
 164 Fred Fish                       [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         Daniel Jacobowitz  <[email protected]>
 201
 202
 203
 204                         Responsible Maintainers
 205                         -----------------------
 206
 207 These developers have agreed to review patches in specific areas of GDB, in
 208 which they have knowledge and experience.  These areas are generally broad;
 209 the role of a responsible maintainer is to provide coherent and cohesive
 210 structure within their area of GDB, to assure that patches from many
 211 different contributors all work together for the best results.
 212
 213 Global maintainers will defer to responsible maintainers within their areas,
 214 as long as the responsible maintainer is active.  Active means that
 215 responsible maintainers agree to review submitted patches in their area
 216 promptly; patches and followups should generally be answered within a week.
 217 If a responsible maintainer is interested in reviewing a patch but will not
 218 have time within a week of posting, the maintainer should send an
 219 acknowledgement of the patch to the gdb-patches mailing list, and
 220 plan to follow up with a review within a month.  These deadlines are for
 221 initial responses to a patch - if the maintainer has suggestions
 222 or questions, it may take an extended discussion before the patch
 223 is ready to commit.  There are no written requirements for discussion,
 224 but maintainers are asked to be responsive.
 225
 226 If a responsible maintainer misses these deadlines occasionally (e.g.
 227 vacation or unexpected workload), it's not a disaster - any global
 228 maintainer may step in to review the patch.  But sometimes life intervenes
 229 more permanently, and a maintainer may no longer have time for these duties.
 230 When this happens, he or she should step down (either into the Authorized
 231 Committers section if still interested in the area, or simply removed from
 232 the list of Responsible Maintainers if not).
 233
 234 If a responsible maintainer is unresponsive for an extended period of time
 235 without stepping down, please contact the Global Maintainers; they will try
 236 to contact the maintainer directly and fix the problem - potentially by
 237 removing that maintainer from their listed position.
 238
 239 If there are several maintainers for a given domain then any one of them
 240 may review a submitted patch.
 241
 242 Target Instruction Set Architectures:
 243
 244 The *-tdep.c files.  ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) and OS-ABI
 245 (Operating System / Application Binary Interface) issues including CPU
 246 variants.
 247
 248 The Target/Architecture maintainer works with the host maintainer when
 249 resolving build issues.  The Target/Architecture maintainer works with
 250 the native maintainer when resolving ABI issues.
 251
 252         alpha           --target=alpha-elf ,-Werror
 253
 254         arm             --target=arm-elf ,-Werror
 255                         Richard Earnshaw        [email protected]
 256
 257         avr             --target=avr ,-Werror
 258
 259         cris            --target=cris-elf ,-Werror
 260
 261         d10v            OBSOLETE
 262
 263         frv             --target=frv-elf ,-Werror
 264
 265         h8300           --target=h8300-elf ,-Werror
 266
 267         i386            --target=i386-elf ,-Werror
 268                         Mark Kettenis           [email protected]
 269
 270         ia64            --target=ia64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
 271                         (--target=ia64-elf broken)
 272
 273         m32c            --target=m32c-elf ,-Werror
 274                         Jim Blandy, [email protected]
 275
 276         m32r            --target=m32r-elf ,-Werror
 277
 278         m68hc11         --target=m68hc11-elf ,-Werror ,
 279                         Stephane Carrez         [email protected]
 280
 281         m68k            --target=m68k-elf ,-Werror
 282
 283         m88k            --target=m88k-openbsd ,-Werror
 284                         Mark Kettenis           [email protected]
 285
 286         mcore           Deleted
 287
 288         mips            --target=mips-elf ,-Werror
 289
 290         mn10300         --target=mn10300-elf broken
 291                         (sim/ dies with make -j)
 292                         Michael Snyder          [email protected]
 293
 294         ms1             --target=ms1-elf ,-Werror
 295                         Kevin Buettner          [email protected]
 296
 297         ns32k           Deleted
 298
 299         pa              --target=hppa-elf ,-Werror
 300
 301         powerpc         --target=powerpc-eabi ,-Werror
 302
 303         s390            --target=s390-linux-gnu ,-Werror
 304
 305         score   --target=score-elf
 306                         Qinwei          [email protected]
 307
 308         sh              --target=sh-elf ,-Werror
 309                         --target=sh64-elf ,-Werror
 310
 311         sparc           --target=sparc-elf ,-Werror
 312
 313         spu             --target=spu-elf ,-Werror
 314                         Ulrich Weigand          [email protected]
 315
 316         v850            --target=v850-elf ,-Werror
 317
 318         vax             --target=vax-netbsd ,-Werror
 319
 320         x86-64          --target=x86_64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
 321
 322         xstormy16       --target=xstormy16-elf
 323                         Corinna Vinschen        [email protected]
 324
 325         xtensa          --target=xtensa-elf
 326                         Maxim Grigoriev         [email protected]
 327
 328 All developers recognized by this file can make arbitrary changes to
 329 OBSOLETE targets.
 330
 331 The Bourne shell script gdb_mbuild.sh can be used to rebuild all the
 332 above targets.
 333
 334
 335 Host/Native:
 336
 337 The Native maintainer is responsible for target specific native
 338 support - typically shared libraries and quirks to procfs/ptrace/...
 339 The Native maintainer works with the Arch and Core maintainers when
 340 resolving more generic problems.
 341
 342 The host maintainer ensures that gdb can be built as a cross debugger on
 343 their platform.
 344
 345 AIX                     Joel Brobecker          [email protected]
 346
 347 djgpp native            Eli Zaretskii           [email protected]
 348 GNU Hurd                Alfred M. Szmidt        [email protected]
 349 MS Windows (NT, '00, 9x, Me, XP) host & native
 350                         Chris Faylor            [email protected]
 351 GNU/Linux/x86 native & host
 352                         Mark Kettenis           [email protected]
 353 GNU/Linux MIPS native & host
 354                         Daniel Jacobowitz       [email protected]
 355 GNU/Linux m68k          Andreas Schwab          [email protected]
 356 FreeBSD native & host   Mark Kettenis           [email protected]
 357
 358
 359
 360 Core: Generic components used by all of GDB
 361
 362 tracing                 Michael Snyder          [email protected]
 363 threads                 Michael Snyder          [email protected]
 364                         Mark Kettenis           [email protected]
 365 language support
 366   C++                   Daniel Jacobowitz       [email protected]
 367   Objective C support   Adam Fedor              [email protected]
 368 shared libs             Kevin Buettner          [email protected]
 369
 370 documentation           Eli Zaretskii           [email protected]
 371   (including NEWS)
 372 testsuite
 373   gdbtk (gdb.gdbtk)     Keith Seitz             [email protected]
 374   threads (gdb.threads) Michael Snyder          [email protected]
 375   trace (gdb.trace)     Michael Snyder          [email protected]
 376
 377
 378 UI: External (user) interfaces.
 379
 380 gdbtk (c & tcl)         Fernando Nasser         [email protected]
 381                         Keith Seitz             [email protected]
 382 libgui (w/foundry, sn)  Keith Seitz             [email protected]
 383
 384
 385 Misc:
 386
 387 gdb/gdbserver           Daniel Jacobowitz       [email protected]
 388
 389 Makefile.in, configure* ALL
 390
 391 mmalloc/                ALL Host maintainers
 392
 393 sim/                    See sim/MAINTAINERS
 394
 395 readline/               Master version: ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/
 396                         ALL
 397                         Host maintainers (host dependant parts)
 398                         (but get your changes into the master version)
 399
 400 tcl/ tk/ itcl/          ALL
 401
 402
 403                 Authorized Committers
 404                 ---------------------
 405
 406 These are developers working on particular areas of GDB, who are trusted to
 407 commit their own (or other developers') patches in those areas without
 408 further review from a Global Maintainer or Responsible Maintainer.  They are
 409 under no obligation to review posted patches - but, of course, are invited
 410 to do so!
 411
 412 PowerPC                 Andrew Cagney           [email protected]
 413 CRIS                    Hans-Peter Nilsson      [email protected]
 414 IA64                    Jeff Johnston           [email protected]
 415 MIPS                    Joel Brobecker          [email protected]
 416 m32r                    Kei Sakamoto            [email protected]
 417 PowerPC                 Kevin Buettner          [email protected]
 418 CRIS                    Orjan Friberg           [email protected]
 419 HPPA                    Randolph Chung          [email protected]
 420 S390                    Ulrich Weigand          [email protected]
 421 djgpp                   DJ Delorie              [email protected]
 422                         [Please use this address to contact DJ about DJGPP]
 423 tui                     Stephane Carrez         [email protected]
 424 ia64                    Kevin Buettner          [email protected]
 425 AIX                     Kevin Buettner          [email protected]
 426 GNU/Linux PPC native    Kevin Buettner          [email protected]
 427 gdb.java tests          Anthony Green           [email protected]
 428 FreeBSD native & host   David O'Brien           [email protected]
 429 event loop              Elena Zannoni           [email protected]
 430 generic symtabs         Elena Zannoni           [email protected]
 431 dwarf readers           Elena Zannoni           [email protected]
 432 elf reader              Elena Zannoni           [email protected]
 433 stabs reader            Elena Zannoni           [email protected]
 434 readline/               Elena Zannoni           [email protected]
 435 NetBSD native & host    Jason Thorpe            [email protected]
 436 Pascal support          Pierre Muller           [email protected]
 437 avr                     Theodore A. Roth        [email protected]
 438 Modula-2 support        Gaius Mulley            [email protected]
 439
 440
 441                         Write After Approval
 442                            (alphabetic)
 443
 444 To get recommended for the Write After Approval list you need a valid
 445 FSF assignment and have submitted one good patch.
 446
 447 David Anderson                                  [email protected]
 448 John David Anglin                               [email protected]
 449 Shrinivas Atre                                  [email protected]
 450 Scott Bambrough                                 [email protected]
 451 Jan Beulich                                     [email protected]
 452 Jim Blandy                                      [email protected]
 453 Philip Blundell                                 [email protected]
 454 Per Bothner                                     [email protected]
 455 Joel Brobecker                                  [email protected]
 456 Dave Brolley                                    [email protected]
 457 Paul Brook                                      [email protected]
 458 Julian Brown                                    [email protected]
 459 Kevin Buettner                                  [email protected]
 460 Andrew Cagney                                   [email protected]
 461 David Carlton                                   [email protected]
 462 Stephane Carrez                                 [email protected]
 463 Michael Chastain                                [email protected]
 464 Eric Christopher                                [email protected]
 465 Randolph Chung                                  [email protected]
 466 Nick Clifton                                    [email protected]
 467 J.T. Conklin                                    [email protected]
 468 Brendan Conoboy                                 [email protected]
 469 DJ Delorie                                      [email protected]
 470 Philippe De Muyter                              [email protected]
 471 Dhananjay Deshpande                             [email protected]
 472 Klee Dienes                                     [email protected]
 473 Richard Earnshaw                                [email protected]
 474 Steve Ellcey                                    [email protected]
 475 Frank Ch. Eigler                                [email protected]
 476 Ben Elliston                                    [email protected]
 477 Adam Fedor                                      [email protected]
 478 Fred Fish                                       [email protected]
 479 Brian Ford                                      [email protected]
 480 Orjan Friberg                                   [email protected]
 481 Gary Funck                                      [email protected]
 482 Paul Gilliam                                    [email protected]
 483 Raoul Gough                                     [email protected]
 484 Anthony Green                                   [email protected]
 485 Matthew Green                                   [email protected]
 486 Maxim Grigoriev                                 [email protected]
 487 Jerome Guitton                                  [email protected]
 488 Ben Harris                                      [email protected]
 489 Richard Henderson                               [email protected]
 490 Aldy Hernandez                                  [email protected]
 491 Paul Hilfinger                                  [email protected]
 492 Matt Hiller                                     [email protected]
 493 Kazu Hirata                                     [email protected]
 494 Jeff Holcomb                                    [email protected]
 495 Don Howard                                      [email protected]
 496 Martin Hunt                                     [email protected]
 497 Jim Ingham                                      [email protected]
 498 Baurzhan Ismagulov                              [email protected]
 499 Manoj Iyer                                      [email protected]
 500 Daniel Jacobowitz                               [email protected]
 501 Andreas Jaeger                                  [email protected]
 502 Jeff Johnston                                   [email protected]
 503 Geoff Keating                                   [email protected]
 504 Mark Kettenis                                   [email protected]
 505 Jim Kingdon                                     [email protected]
 506 Jan Kratochvil                                  [email protected]
 507 Jonathan Larmour                                [email protected]
 508 Jeff Law                                        [email protected]
 509 David Lecomber                                  [email protected]
 510 Robert Lipe                                     [email protected]
 511 H.J. Lu                                         [email protected]
 512 Michal Ludvig                                   [email protected]
 513 Glen McCready                                   [email protected]
 514 Greg McGary                                     [email protected]
 515 Roland McGrath                                  [email protected]
 516 Bryce McKinlay                                  [email protected]
 517 Jason Merrill                                   [email protected]
 518 David S. Miller                                 [email protected]
 519 Mark Mitchell                                   [email protected]
 520 Marko Mlinar                                    [email protected]
 521 Alan Modra                                      [email protected]
 522 Jason Molenda                                   [email protected]
 523 Pierre Muller                                   [email protected]
 524 Gaius Mulley                                    [email protected]
 525 Joseph Myers                                    [email protected]
 526 Fernando Nasser                                 [email protected]
 527 Adam Nemet                                      [email protected]
 528 Nathanael Nerode                                [email protected]
 529 Hans-Peter Nilsson                              [email protected]
 530 David O'Brien                                   [email protected]
 531 Alexandre Oliva                                 [email protected]
 532 Denis Pilat                                     [email protected]
 533 Vladimir Prus                                   [email protected]
 534 Qinwei                                                  [email protected]
 535 Ramana Radhakrishnan                            [email protected]
 536 Frederic Riss                                   [email protected]
 537 Tom Rix                                         [email protected]
 538 Nick Roberts                                    [email protected]
 539 Bob Rossi                                       [email protected]
 540 Theodore A. Roth                                [email protected]
 541 Ian Roxborough                                  [email protected]
 542 Grace Sainsbury                                 [email protected]
 543 Kei Sakamoto                                    [email protected]
 544 Mark Salter                                     [email protected]
 545 Richard Sandiford                               [email protected]
 546 Peter Schauer                                   [email protected]
 547 Andreas Schwab                                  [email protected]
 548 Keith Seitz                                     [email protected]
 549 Stan Shebs                                      [email protected]
 550 Aidan Skinner                                   [email protected]
 551 Jiri Smid                                       [email protected]
 552 David Smith                                     [email protected]
 553 Stephen P. Smith                                [email protected]
 554 Jackie Smith Cashion                            [email protected]
 555 Michael Snyder                                  [email protected]
 556 Petr Sorfa                                      [email protected]
 557 Andrew Stubbs                                   [email protected]
 558 Ian Lance Taylor                                [email protected]
 559 Gary Thomas                                     [email protected]
 560 Jason Thorpe                                    [email protected]
 561 Tom Tromey                                      [email protected]
 562 David Ung                                       [email protected]
 563 D Venkatasubramanian                            [email protected]
 564 Corinna Vinschen                                [email protected]
 565 Keith Walker                                    [email protected]
 566 Kris Warkentin                                  [email protected]
 567 Ulrich Weigand                                  [email protected]
 568 Nathan Williams                                 [email protected]
 569 Bob Wilson                                      [email protected]
 570 Jim Wilson                                      [email protected]
 571 Elena Zannoni                                   [email protected]
 572 Eli Zaretskii                                   [email protected]
 573 Wu Zhou                                         [email protected]
 574 Yoshinori Sato                                  [email protected]
 575
 576
 577                         Past Maintainers
 578
 579 Whenever removing yourself, or someone else, from this file, consider
 580 listing their areas of development here for posterity.
 581
 582 Jimmy Guo (gdb.hp, tui)                         guo at cup dot hp dot com
 583 Jeff Law (hppa)                                 law at cygnus dot com
 584 Daniel Berlin (C++ support)                     dan at cgsoftware dot com
 585 Nick Duffek (powerpc, SCO, Sol/x86)             nick at duffek dot com
 586 David Taylor (d10v, sparc, utils, defs,
 587   expression evaluator, language support)       taylor at candd dot org
 588 J.T. Conklin (dcache, NetBSD, remote, global)   jtc at acorntoolworks dot com
 589 Frank Ch. Eigler (sim)                          fche at redhat dot com
 590 Per Bothner (Java)                              per at bothner dot com
 591 Anthony Green (Java)                            green at redhat dot com
 592 Fernando Nasser (testsuite/, mi, cli, KOD)      fnasser at redhat dot com
 593 Mark Salter (testsuite/lib+config)              msalter at redhat dot com
 594 Jim Kingdon (web pages)                         kingdon at panix dot com
 595 Jim Ingham (gdbtk, libgui)                      jingham at apple dot com
 596 Mark Kettenis (hurd native)                     kettenis at gnu dot org
 597 Ian Roxborough (in-tree tcl, tk, itcl)          irox at redhat dot com
 598 Robert Lipe (SCO/Unixware)                      rjl at sco dot com
 599 Peter Schauer (global, AIX, xcoffsolib,
 600   Solaris/x86)                                  Peter.Schauer at mytum dot de
 601 Scott Bambrough (ARM)                           scottb at netwinder dot org
 602 Philippe De Muyter (coff)                       phdm at macqel dot be
 603 Michael Chastain (testsuite)                    mec.gnu at mindspring dot com
 604
 605
 606
 607 Folks that have been caught up in a paper trail:
 608
 609 David Carlton                                   [email protected]