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1 GDB Maintainers
2 ===============
3
4
5 Overview
6 --------
7
8This file describes different groups of people who are, together, the
9maintainers and developers of the GDB project. Don't worry - it sounds
10more complicated than it really is.
11
12There are four groups of GDB developers, covering the patch development and
13review 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
40All maintainers are encouraged to post major patches to the gdb-patches
41mailing list for comments, even if they have the authority to commit the
42patch without review from another maintainer. This especially includes
43patches which change internal interfaces (e.g. global functions, data
44structures) or external interfaces (e.g. user, remote, MI, et cetera).
45
46The term "review" is used in this file to describe several kinds of feedback
47from a maintainer: approval, rejection, and requests for changes or
48clarification with the intention of approving a revised version. Review is
49a privilege and/or responsibility of various positions among the GDB
50Maintainers. Of course, anyone - whether they hold a position but not the
51relevant one for a particular patch, or are just following along on the
52mailing lists for fun, or anything in between - may suggest changes or
53ask questions about a patch!
54
55There's also a couple of other people who play special roles in the GDB
56community, 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
75Most changes to the list of maintainers in this file are handled by
76consensus among the global maintainers and any other involved parties.
77In cases where consensus can not be reached, the global maintainers may
78ask the Steering Committee for a final decision.
79
80
81 The Obvious Fix Rule
82 --------------------
83
84All maintainers listed in this file, including the Write After Approval
85developers, are allowed to check in obvious fixes.
86
87An "obvious fix" means that there is no possibility that anyone will
88disagree with the change.
89
90A good mental test is "will the person who hates my work the most be
91able to find fault with the change" - if so, then it's not obvious and
92needs to be posted first. :-)
93
94Something like changing or bypassing an interface is _not_ an obvious
95fix, since such a change without discussion will result in
96instantaneous and loud complaints.
97
98
99 GDB Steering Committee
100 ----------------------
101
102The members of the GDB Steering Committee are the FSF-appointed
103maintainers of the GDB project.
104
105The Steering Committee has final authority for all GDB-related topics;
106they may make whatever changes that they deem necessary, or that the FSF
107requests. However, they are generally not involved in day-to-day
108development.
109
110The current members of the steering committee are listed below, in
111alphabetical order. Their affiliations are provided for reference only -
112their membership on the Steering Committee is individual and not through
113their 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
130The global maintainers may review and commit any change to GDB, except in
131areas with a Responsible Maintainer available. For major changes, or
132changes to areas with other active developers, global maintainers are
133strongly encouraged to post their own patches for feedback before
134committing.
135
136The global maintainers are responsible for reviewing patches to any area
137for which no Responsible Maintainer is listed.
138
139Global maintainers also have the authority to revert patches which should
140not have been applied, e.g. patches which were not approved, controversial
141patches committed under the Obvious Fix Rule, patches with important bugs
142that can't be immediately fixed, or patches which go against an accepted and
143documented roadmap for GDB development. Any global maintainer may request
144the reversion of a patch. If no global maintainer, or responsible
145maintainer in the affected areas, supports the patch (except for the
146maintainer who originally committed it), then after 48 hours the maintainer
147who called for the reversion may revert the patch.
148
149No one may reapply a reverted patch without the agreement of the maintainer
150who reverted it, or bringing the issue to the GDB Steering Committee for
151discussion.
152
153At the moment there are no documented roadmaps for GDB development; in the
154future, if there are, a reference to the list will be included here.
155
156The current global maintainers are (in alphabetical order):
157
158Jim Blandy jimb@codesourcery.com
159Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
160Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
161Fred Fish fnf@ninemoons.com
162Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
163Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
164Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com
165Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
166Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
167Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
168
169
170 Release Manager
171 ---------------
172
173The current release manager is: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
174
175His 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
187These volunteers track all patches submitted to the gdb-patches list. They
188endeavor to prevent any posted patch from being overlooked; work with
189contributors to meet GDB's coding style and general requirements, along with
190FSF copyright assignments; remind (ping) responsible maintainers to review
191patches; and ensure that contributors are given credit.
192
193Current patch champions (in alphabetical order):
194
195 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
196 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
197
198
199
200 Responsible Maintainers
201 -----------------------
202
203These developers have agreed to review patches in specific areas of GDB, in
204which they have knowledge and experience. These areas are generally broad;
205the role of a responsible maintainer is to provide coherent and cohesive
206structure within their area of GDB, to assure that patches from many
207different contributors all work together for the best results.
208
209Global maintainers will defer to responsible maintainers within their areas,
210as long as the responsible maintainer is active. Active means that
211responsible maintainers agree to review submitted patches in their area
212promptly; patches and followups should generally be answered within a week.
213If a responsible maintainer is interested in reviewing a patch but will not
214have time within a week of posting, the maintainer should send an
215acknowledgement of the patch to the gdb-patches mailing list, and
216plan to follow up with a review within a month. These deadlines are for
217initial responses to a patch - if the maintainer has suggestions
218or questions, it may take an extended discussion before the patch
219is ready to commit. There are no written requirements for discussion,
220but maintainers are asked to be responsive.
221
222If a responsible maintainer misses these deadlines occasionally (e.g.
223vacation or unexpected workload), it's not a disaster - any global
224maintainer may step in to review the patch. But sometimes life intervenes
225more permanently, and a maintainer may no longer have time for these duties.
226When this happens, he or she should step down (either into the Authorized
227Committers section if still interested in the area, or simply removed from
228the list of Responsible Maintainers if not).
229
230If a responsible maintainer is unresponsive for an extended period of time
231without stepping down, please contact the Global Maintainers; they will try
232to contact the maintainer directly and fix the problem - potentially by
233removing that maintainer from their listed position.
234
235If there are several maintainers for a given domain then any one of them
236may review a submitted patch.
237
238Target Instruction Set Architectures:
239
240The *-tdep.c files. ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) and OS-ABI
241(Operating System / Application Binary Interface) issues including CPU
242variants.
243
244The Target/Architecture maintainer works with the host maintainer when
245resolving build issues. The Target/Architecture maintainer works with
246the native maintainer when resolving ABI issues.
247
248 alpha --target=alpha-elf ,-Werror
249
250 arm --target=arm-elf ,-Werror
251 Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
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 kettenis@gnu.org
265
266 ia64 --target=ia64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
267 (--target=ia64-elf broken)
268
269 m32c --target=m32c-elf ,-Werror
270 Jim Blandy, jimb@codesourcery.com
271
272 m32r --target=m32r-elf ,-Werror
273
274 m68hc11 --target=m68hc11-elf ,-Werror ,
275 Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
276
277 m68k --target=m68k-elf ,-Werror
278
279 m88k --target=m88k-openbsd ,-Werror
280 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
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 msnyder@redhat.com
289
290 ms1 --target=ms1-elf ,-Werror
291 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
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 vinschen@redhat.com
314
315All developers recognized by this file can make arbitrary changes to
316OBSOLETE targets.
317
318The Bourne shell script gdb_mbuild.sh can be used to rebuild all the
319above targets.
320
321
322Host/Native:
323
324The Native maintainer is responsible for target specific native
325support - typically shared libraries and quirks to procfs/ptrace/...
326The Native maintainer works with the Arch and Core maintainers when
327resolving more generic problems.
328
329The host maintainer ensures that gdb can be built as a cross debugger on
330their platform.
331
332AIX Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
333
334djgpp native Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
335MS Windows (NT, '00, 9x, Me, XP) host & native
336 Chris Faylor cgf@alum.bu.edu
337GNU/Linux/x86 native & host
338 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
339GNU/Linux MIPS native & host
340 Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
341GNU/Linux m68k Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
342FreeBSD native & host Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
343
344
345
346Core: Generic components used by all of GDB
347
348tracing Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
349threads Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
350 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
351language support
352 C++ Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
353 Objective C support Adam Fedor fedor@gnu.org
354shared libs Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
355
356documentation Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
357 (including NEWS)
358testsuite
359 gdbtk (gdb.gdbtk) Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
360 threads (gdb.threads) Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
361 trace (gdb.trace) Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
362
363
364UI: External (user) interfaces.
365
366gdbtk (c & tcl) Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
367 Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
368libgui (w/foundry, sn) Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
369
370
371Misc:
372
373gdb/gdbserver Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
374
375Makefile.in, configure* ALL
376
377mmalloc/ ALL Host maintainers
378
379sim/ See sim/MAINTAINERS
380
381readline/ Master version: ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/
382 ALL
383 Host maintainers (host dependant parts)
384 (but get your changes into the master version)
385
386tcl/ tk/ itcl/ ALL
387
388
389 Authorized Committers
390 ---------------------
391
392These are developers working on particular areas of GDB, who are trusted to
393commit their own (or other developers') patches in those areas without
394further review from a Global Maintainer or Responsible Maintainer. They are
395under no obligation to review posted patches - but, of course, are invited
396to do so!
397
398PowerPC Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
399CRIS Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
400IA64 Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
401MIPS Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
402m32r Kei Sakamoto sakamoto.kei@renesas.com
403PowerPC Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
404CRIS Orjan Friberg orjanf@axis.com
405HPPA Randolph Chung tausq@debian.org
406S390 Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
407djgpp DJ Delorie dj@delorie.com
408 [Please use this address to contact DJ about DJGPP]
409tui Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
410ia64 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
411AIX Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
412GNU/Linux PPC native Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
413gdb.java tests Anthony Green green@redhat.com
414FreeBSD native & host David O'Brien obrien@freebsd.org
415event loop Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
416generic symtabs Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
417dwarf readers Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
418elf reader Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
419stabs reader Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
420readline/ Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
421Kernel Object Display Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
422NetBSD native & host Jason Thorpe thorpej@netbsd.org
423Pascal support Pierre Muller muller@sources.redhat.com
424avr Theodore A. Roth troth@openavr.org
425
426
427 Write After Approval
428 (alphabetic)
429
430To get recommended for the Write After Approval list you need a valid
431FSF assignment and have submitted one good patch.
432
433David Anderson davea@sgi.com
434John David Anglin dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
435Shrinivas Atre shrinivasa@kpitcummins.com
436Scott Bambrough scottb@netwinder.org
437Jan Beulich jbeulich@novell.com
438Jim Blandy jimb@codesourcery.com
439Philip Blundell philb@gnu.org
440Per Bothner per@bothner.com
441Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
442Dave Brolley brolley@redhat.com
443Paul Brook paul@codesourcery.com
444Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
445Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
446David Carlton carlton@bactrian.org
447Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
448Michael Chastain mec.gnu@mindspring.com
449Eric Christopher echristo@apple.com
450Randolph Chung tausq@debian.org
451Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
452J.T. Conklin jtc@acorntoolworks.com
453Brendan Conoboy blc@redhat.com
454DJ Delorie dj@redhat.com
455Philippe De Muyter phdm@macqel.be
456Dhananjay Deshpande dhananjayd@kpitcummins.com
457Klee Dienes kdienes@apple.com
458Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
459Steve Ellcey sje@cup.hp.com
460Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
461Ben Elliston bje@gnu.org
462Adam Fedor fedor@gnu.org
463Fred Fish fnf@ninemoons.com
464Brian Ford ford@vss.fsi.com
465Orjan Friberg orjanf@axis.com
466Paul Gilliam pgilliam@us.ibm.com
467Raoul Gough RaoulGough@yahoo.co.uk
468Anthony Green green@redhat.com
469Matthew Green mrg@eterna.com.au
470Jerome Guitton guitton@act-europe.fr
471Ben Harris bjh21@netbsd.org
472Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
473Aldy Hernandez aldyh@redhat.com
474Paul Hilfinger hilfinger@gnat.com
475Matt Hiller hiller@redhat.com
476Kazu Hirata kazu@cs.umass.edu
477Jeff Holcomb jeffh@redhat.com
478Don Howard dhoward@redhat.com
479Martin Hunt hunt@redhat.com
480Jim Ingham jingham@apple.com
481Baurzhan Ismagulov ibr@radix50.net
482Manoj Iyer manjo@austin.ibm.com
483Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
484Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
485Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
486Geoff Keating geoffk@redhat.com
487Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
488Jim Kingdon kingdon@panix.com
489Jonathan Larmour jlarmour@redhat.co.uk
490Jeff Law law@redhat.com
491David Lecomber david@streamline-computing.com
492Robert Lipe rjl@sco.com
493H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
494Michal Ludvig mludvig@suse.cz
495Glen McCready gkm@redhat.com
496Greg McGary greg@mcgary.org
497Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
498Bryce McKinlay mckinlay@redhat.com
499Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
500David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
501Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
502Marko Mlinar markom@opencores.org
503Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
504Jason Molenda jmolenda@apple.com
505Pierre Muller muller@sources.redhat.com
506Gaius Mulley gaius@glam.ac.uk
507Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
508Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
509Nathanael Nerode neroden@gcc.gnu.org
510Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
511David O'Brien obrien@freebsd.org
512Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
513Ramana Radhakrishnan ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com
514Frederic Riss frederic.riss@st.com
515Tom Rix trix@redhat.com
516Nick Roberts nickrob@snap.net.nz
517Bob Rossi bob_rossi@cox.net
518Theodore A. Roth troth@openavr.org
519Ian Roxborough irox@redhat.com
520Grace Sainsbury graces@redhat.com
521Kei Sakamoto sakamoto.kei@renesas.com
522Mark Salter msalter@redhat.com
523Richard Sandiford richard@codesourcery.com
524Peter Schauer Peter.Schauer@mytum.de
525Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
526Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
527Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com
528Aidan Skinner aidan@velvet.net
529Jiri Smid smid@suse.cz
530David Smith dsmith@redhat.com
531Stephen P. Smith ischis2@cox.net
532Jackie Smith Cashion jsmith@redhat.com
533Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
534Petr Sorfa petrs@caldera.com
535Andrew Stubbs andrew.stubbs@st.com
536Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
537Gary Thomas gthomas@redhat.com
538Jason Thorpe thorpej@netbsd.org
539Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
540David Ung davidu@mips.com
541D Venkatasubramanian dvenkat@noida.hcltech.com
542Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
543Keith Walker keith.walker@arm.com
544Kris Warkentin kewarken@qnx.com
545Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
546Nathan Williams nathanw@wasabisystems.com
547Jim Wilson wilson@specifixinc.com
548Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
549Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
550Wu Zhou woodzltc@cn.ibm.com
551Yoshinori Sato ysato@users.sourceforge.jp
552
553
554 Past Maintainers
555
556Whenever removing yourself, or someone else, from this file, consider
557listing their areas of development here for posterity.
558
559Jimmy Guo (gdb.hp, tui) guo at cup dot hp dot com
560Jeff Law (hppa) law at cygnus dot com
561Daniel Berlin (C++ support) dan at cgsoftware dot com
562Nick Duffek (powerpc, SCO, Sol/x86) nick at duffek dot com
563David Taylor (d10v, sparc, utils, defs,
564 expression evaluator, language support) taylor at candd dot org
565J.T. Conklin (dcache, NetBSD, remote, global) jtc at acorntoolworks dot com
566Frank Ch. Eigler (sim) fche at redhat dot com
567Per Bothner (Java) per at bothner dot com
568Anthony Green (Java) green at redhat dot com
569Fernando Nasser (testsuite/, mi, cli) fnasser at redhat dot com
570Mark Salter (testsuite/lib+config) msalter at redhat dot com
571Jim Kingdon (web pages) kingdon at panix dot com
572Jim Ingham (gdbtk, libgui) jingham at apple dot com
573Mark Kettenis (hurd native) kettenis at gnu dot org
574Ian Roxborough (in-tree tcl, tk, itcl) irox at redhat dot com
575Robert Lipe (SCO/Unixware) rjl at sco dot com
576Peter Schauer (global, AIX, xcoffsolib,
577 Solaris/x86) Peter.Schauer at mytum dot de
578Scott Bambrough (ARM) scottb at netwinder dot org
579Philippe De Muyter (coff) phdm at macqel dot be
580Michael Chastain (testsuite) mec.gnu at mindspring dot com
581
582
583
584Folks that have been caught up in a paper trail:
585
586David Carlton carlton@bactrian.org
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