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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
98For documentation changes, about the only kind of fix that is obvious
99is correction of a typo or bad English usage.
100
101
102 GDB Steering Committee
103 ----------------------
104
105The members of the GDB Steering Committee are the FSF-appointed
106maintainers of the GDB project.
107
108The Steering Committee has final authority for all GDB-related topics;
109they may make whatever changes that they deem necessary, or that the FSF
110requests. However, they are generally not involved in day-to-day
111development.
112
113The current members of the steering committee are listed below, in
114alphabetical order. Their affiliations are provided for reference only -
115their membership on the Steering Committee is individual and not through
116their 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
133The global maintainers may review and commit any change to GDB, except in
134areas with a Responsible Maintainer available. For major changes, or
135changes to areas with other active developers, global maintainers are
136strongly encouraged to post their own patches for feedback before
137committing.
138
139The global maintainers are responsible for reviewing patches to any area
140for which no Responsible Maintainer is listed.
141
142Global maintainers also have the authority to revert patches which should
143not have been applied, e.g. patches which were not approved, controversial
144patches committed under the Obvious Fix Rule, patches with important bugs
145that can't be immediately fixed, or patches which go against an accepted and
146documented roadmap for GDB development. Any global maintainer may request
147the reversion of a patch. If no global maintainer, or responsible
148maintainer in the affected areas, supports the patch (except for the
149maintainer who originally committed it), then after 48 hours the maintainer
150who called for the reversion may revert the patch.
151
152No one may reapply a reverted patch without the agreement of the maintainer
153who reverted it, or bringing the issue to the GDB Steering Committee for
154discussion.
155
156At the moment there are no documented roadmaps for GDB development; in the
157future, if there are, a reference to the list will be included here.
158
159The current global maintainers are (in alphabetical order):
160
161Jim Blandy jimb@codesourcery.com
162Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
163Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
164Fred Fish fnf@ninemoons.com
165Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
166Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
167Stan Shebs shebs@mozilla.com
168Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@access-company.com
169Ulrich Weigand Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com
170Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
171Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
172
173
174 Release Manager
175 ---------------
176
177The current release manager is: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
178
179His 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
191These volunteers track all patches submitted to the gdb-patches list. They
192endeavor to prevent any posted patch from being overlooked; work with
193contributors to meet GDB's coding style and general requirements, along with
194FSF copyright assignments; remind (ping) responsible maintainers to review
195patches; and ensure that contributors are given credit.
196
197Current patch champions (in alphabetical order):
198
199 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
200 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
201
202
203
204 Responsible Maintainers
205 -----------------------
206
207These developers have agreed to review patches in specific areas of GDB, in
208which they have knowledge and experience. These areas are generally broad;
209the role of a responsible maintainer is to provide coherent and cohesive
210structure within their area of GDB, to assure that patches from many
211different contributors all work together for the best results.
212
213Global maintainers will defer to responsible maintainers within their areas,
214as long as the responsible maintainer is active. Active means that
215responsible maintainers agree to review submitted patches in their area
216promptly; patches and followups should generally be answered within a week.
217If a responsible maintainer is interested in reviewing a patch but will not
218have time within a week of posting, the maintainer should send an
219acknowledgement of the patch to the gdb-patches mailing list, and
220plan to follow up with a review within a month. These deadlines are for
221initial responses to a patch - if the maintainer has suggestions
222or questions, it may take an extended discussion before the patch
223is ready to commit. There are no written requirements for discussion,
224but maintainers are asked to be responsive.
225
226If a responsible maintainer misses these deadlines occasionally (e.g.
227vacation or unexpected workload), it's not a disaster - any global
228maintainer may step in to review the patch. But sometimes life intervenes
229more permanently, and a maintainer may no longer have time for these duties.
230When this happens, he or she should step down (either into the Authorized
231Committers section if still interested in the area, or simply removed from
232the list of Responsible Maintainers if not).
233
234If a responsible maintainer is unresponsive for an extended period of time
235without stepping down, please contact the Global Maintainers; they will try
236to contact the maintainer directly and fix the problem - potentially by
237removing that maintainer from their listed position.
238
239If there are several maintainers for a given domain then any one of them
240may review a submitted patch.
241
242Target Instruction Set Architectures:
243
244The *-tdep.c files. ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) and OS-ABI
245(Operating System / Application Binary Interface) issues including CPU
246variants.
247
248The Target/Architecture maintainer works with the host maintainer when
249resolving build issues. The Target/Architecture maintainer works with
250the native maintainer when resolving ABI issues.
251
252 alpha --target=alpha-elf ,-Werror
253
254 arm --target=arm-elf ,-Werror
255 Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
256
257 avr --target=avr ,-Werror
258
259 cris --target=cris-elf ,-Werror ,
260 (sim does not build with -Werror)
261
262 frv --target=frv-elf ,-Werror
263
264 h8300 --target=h8300-elf ,-Werror
265
266 i386 --target=i386-elf ,-Werror
267 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
268
269 ia64 --target=ia64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
270 (--target=ia64-elf broken)
271
272 m32c --target=m32c-elf ,-Werror
273 Jim Blandy, jimb@codesourcery.com
274
275 m32r --target=m32r-elf ,-Werror
276
277 m68hc11 --target=m68hc11-elf ,-Werror ,
278 Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
279
280 m68k --target=m68k-elf ,-Werror
281
282 m88k --target=m88k-openbsd ,-Werror
283 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
284
285 mcore Deleted
286
287 mep --target=mep-elf ,-Werror
288 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
289
290 mips --target=mips-elf ,-Werror
291
292 mn10300 --target=mn10300-elf broken
293 (sim/ dies with make -j)
294 Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@access-company.com
295
296 ms1 --target=ms1-elf ,-Werror
297 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
298
299 ns32k Deleted
300
301 pa --target=hppa-elf ,-Werror
302
303 powerpc --target=powerpc-eabi ,-Werror
304
305 s390 --target=s390-linux-gnu ,-Werror
306
307 score --target=score-elf
308 Qinwei qinwei@sunnorth.com.cn
309
310 sh --target=sh-elf ,-Werror
311 --target=sh64-elf ,-Werror
312
313 sparc --target=sparc64-solaris2.10 ,-Werror
314 (--target=sparc-elf broken)
315
316 spu --target=spu-elf ,-Werror
317 Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
318
319 v850 --target=v850-elf ,-Werror
320
321 vax --target=vax-netbsd ,-Werror
322
323 x86-64 --target=x86_64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
324
325 xstormy16 --target=xstormy16-elf
326 Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
327
328 xtensa --target=xtensa-elf
329 Maxim Grigoriev maxim2405@gmail.com
330
331All developers recognized by this file can make arbitrary changes to
332OBSOLETE targets.
333
334The Bourne shell script gdb_mbuild.sh can be used to rebuild all the
335above targets.
336
337
338Host/Native:
339
340The Native maintainer is responsible for target specific native
341support - typically shared libraries and quirks to procfs/ptrace/...
342The Native maintainer works with the Arch and Core maintainers when
343resolving more generic problems.
344
345The host maintainer ensures that gdb can be built as a cross debugger on
346their platform.
347
348AIX Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
349
350djgpp native Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
351GNU Hurd Alfred M. Szmidt ams@gnu.org
352MS Windows (NT, '00, 9x, Me, XP) host & native
353 Chris Faylor cgf@alum.bu.edu
354GNU/Linux/x86 native & host
355 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
356GNU/Linux MIPS native & host
357 Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
358GNU/Linux m68k Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
359FreeBSD native & host Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
360
361
362
363Core: Generic components used by all of GDB
364
365tracing Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@access-company.com
366threads Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@access-company.com
367 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
368language support
369 C++ Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
370 Objective C support Adam Fedor fedor@gnu.org
371shared libs Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
372
373documentation Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
374 (including NEWS)
375testsuite
376 gdbtk (gdb.gdbtk) Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
377 threads (gdb.threads) Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@access-company.com
378 trace (gdb.trace) Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@access-company.com
379
380
381UI: External (user) interfaces.
382
383gdbtk (c & tcl) Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
384 Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
385libgui (w/foundry, sn) Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
386
387
388Misc:
389
390gdb/gdbserver Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
391
392Makefile.in, configure* ALL
393
394mmalloc/ ALL Host maintainers
395
396sim/ See sim/MAINTAINERS
397
398readline/ Master version: ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/
399 ALL
400 Host maintainers (host dependant parts)
401 (but get your changes into the master version)
402
403tcl/ tk/ itcl/ ALL
404
405
406 Authorized Committers
407 ---------------------
408
409These are developers working on particular areas of GDB, who are trusted to
410commit their own (or other developers') patches in those areas without
411further review from a Global Maintainer or Responsible Maintainer. They are
412under no obligation to review posted patches - but, of course, are invited
413to do so!
414
415PowerPC Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
416CRIS Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
417IA64 Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
418MIPS Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
419m32r Kei Sakamoto sakamoto.kei@renesas.com
420PowerPC Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
421CRIS Orjan Friberg orjanf@axis.com
422HPPA Randolph Chung tausq@debian.org
423S390 Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
424djgpp DJ Delorie dj@delorie.com
425 [Please use this address to contact DJ about DJGPP]
426tui Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
427ia64 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
428AIX Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
429GNU/Linux PPC native Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
430gdb.java tests Anthony Green green@redhat.com
431FreeBSD native & host David O'Brien obrien@freebsd.org
432event loop Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
433generic symtabs Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
434dwarf readers Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
435elf reader Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
436stabs reader Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
437readline/ Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
438NetBSD native & host Jason Thorpe thorpej@netbsd.org
439Pascal support Pierre Muller muller@sources.redhat.com
440avr Theodore A. Roth troth@openavr.org
441Modula-2 support Gaius Mulley gaius@glam.ac.uk
442
443
444 Write After Approval
445 (alphabetic)
446
447To get recommended for the Write After Approval list you need a valid
448FSF assignment and have submitted one good patch.
449
450Pedro Alves pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt
451David Anderson davea@sgi.com
452John David Anglin dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
453Shrinivas Atre shrinivasa@kpitcummins.com
454Scott Bambrough scottb@netwinder.org
455Jan Beulich jbeulich@novell.com
456Jim Blandy jimb@codesourcery.com
457Philip Blundell philb@gnu.org
458Per Bothner per@bothner.com
459Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
460Dave Brolley brolley@redhat.com
461Paul Brook paul@codesourcery.com
462Julian Brown julian@codesourcery.com
463Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
464Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
465David Carlton carlton@bactrian.org
466Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
467Michael Chastain mec.gnu@mindspring.com
468Eric Christopher echristo@apple.com
469Randolph Chung tausq@debian.org
470Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
471J.T. Conklin jtc@acorntoolworks.com
472Brendan Conoboy blc@redhat.com
473DJ Delorie dj@redhat.com
474Philippe De Muyter phdm@macqel.be
475Dhananjay Deshpande dhananjayd@kpitcummins.com
476Klee Dienes kdienes@apple.com
477Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
478Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
479Steve Ellcey sje@cup.hp.com
480Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
481Ben Elliston bje@gnu.org
482Adam Fedor fedor@gnu.org
483Fred Fish fnf@ninemoons.com
484Brian Ford ford@vss.fsi.com
485Orjan Friberg orjanf@axis.com
486Nathan Froyd froydnj@codesourcery.com
487Gary Funck gary@intrepid.com
488Paul Gilliam pgilliam@us.ibm.com
489Raoul Gough RaoulGough@yahoo.co.uk
490Anthony Green green@redhat.com
491Matthew Green mrg@eterna.com.au
492Maxim Grigoriev maxim2405@gmail.com
493Jerome Guitton guitton@act-europe.fr
494Ben Harris bjh21@netbsd.org
495Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
496Aldy Hernandez aldyh@redhat.com
497Paul Hilfinger hilfinger@gnat.com
498Matt Hiller hiller@redhat.com
499Kazu Hirata kazu@cs.umass.edu
500Jeff Holcomb jeffh@redhat.com
501Don Howard dhoward@redhat.com
502Martin Hunt hunt@redhat.com
503Jim Ingham jingham@apple.com
504Baurzhan Ismagulov ibr@radix50.net
505Manoj Iyer manjo@austin.ibm.com
506Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
507Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
508Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
509Geoff Keating geoffk@redhat.com
510Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
511Jim Kingdon kingdon@panix.com
512Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
513Jonathan Larmour jlarmour@redhat.co.uk
514Jeff Law law@redhat.com
515David Lecomber david@streamline-computing.com
516Robert Lipe rjl@sco.com
517H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
518Michal Ludvig mludvig@suse.cz
519Glen McCready gkm@redhat.com
520Greg McGary greg@mcgary.org
521Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
522Bryce McKinlay mckinlay@redhat.com
523Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
524David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
525Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
526Marko Mlinar markom@opencores.org
527Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
528Jason Molenda jmolenda@apple.com
529Pierre Muller muller@sources.redhat.com
530Gaius Mulley gaius@glam.ac.uk
531Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
532Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
533Adam Nemet anemet@caviumnetworks.com
534Nathanael Nerode neroden@gcc.gnu.org
535Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
536David O'Brien obrien@freebsd.org
537Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
538Denis Pilat denis.pilat@st.com
539Vladimir Prus vladimir@codesourcery.com
540Qinwei qinwei@sunnorth.com.cn
541Ramana Radhakrishnan ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com
542Frederic Riss frederic.riss@st.com
543Tom Rix trix@redhat.com
544Nick Roberts nickrob@snap.net.nz
545Bob Rossi bob_rossi@cox.net
546Theodore A. Roth troth@openavr.org
547Ian Roxborough irox@redhat.com
548Grace Sainsbury graces@redhat.com
549Kei Sakamoto sakamoto.kei@renesas.com
550Mark Salter msalter@redhat.com
551Richard Sandiford richard@codesourcery.com
552Peter Schauer Peter.Schauer@mytum.de
553Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
554Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
555Stan Shebs shebs@mozilla.com
556Mark Shinwell shinwell@codesourcery.com
557Aidan Skinner aidan@velvet.net
558Jiri Smid smid@suse.cz
559David Smith dsmith@redhat.com
560Stephen P. Smith ischis2@cox.net
561Jackie Smith Cashion jsmith@redhat.com
562Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@access-company.com
563Petr Sorfa petrs@caldera.com
564Andrew Stubbs andrew.stubbs@st.com
565Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
566Gary Thomas gthomas@redhat.com
567Jason Thorpe thorpej@netbsd.org
568Caroline Tice ctice@apple.com
569Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
570David Ung davidu@mips.com
571D Venkatasubramanian dvenkat@noida.hcltech.com
572Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
573Keith Walker keith.walker@arm.com
574Kris Warkentin kewarken@qnx.com
575Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
576Nathan Williams nathanw@wasabisystems.com
577Bob Wilson bob.wilson@acm.org
578Jim Wilson wilson@specifixinc.com
579Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
580Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
581Wu Zhou woodzltc@cn.ibm.com
582Yoshinori Sato ysato@users.sourceforge.jp
583
584
585 Past Maintainers
586
587Whenever removing yourself, or someone else, from this file, consider
588listing their areas of development here for posterity.
589
590Jimmy Guo (gdb.hp, tui) guo at cup dot hp dot com
591Jeff Law (hppa) law at cygnus dot com
592Daniel Berlin (C++ support) dan at cgsoftware dot com
593Nick Duffek (powerpc, SCO, Sol/x86) nick at duffek dot com
594David Taylor (d10v, sparc, utils, defs,
595 expression evaluator, language support) taylor at candd dot org
596J.T. Conklin (dcache, NetBSD, remote, global) jtc at acorntoolworks dot com
597Frank Ch. Eigler (sim) fche at redhat dot com
598Per Bothner (Java) per at bothner dot com
599Anthony Green (Java) green at redhat dot com
600Fernando Nasser (testsuite/, mi, cli, KOD) fnasser at redhat dot com
601Mark Salter (testsuite/lib+config) msalter at redhat dot com
602Jim Kingdon (web pages) kingdon at panix dot com
603Jim Ingham (gdbtk, libgui) jingham at apple dot com
604Mark Kettenis (hurd native) kettenis at gnu dot org
605Ian Roxborough (in-tree tcl, tk, itcl) irox at redhat dot com
606Robert Lipe (SCO/Unixware) rjl at sco dot com
607Peter Schauer (global, AIX, xcoffsolib,
608 Solaris/x86) Peter.Schauer at mytum dot de
609Scott Bambrough (ARM) scottb at netwinder dot org
610Philippe De Muyter (coff) phdm at macqel dot be
611Michael Chastain (testsuite) mec.gnu at mindspring dot com
612
613
614
615Folks that have been caught up in a paper trail:
616
617David Carlton carlton@bactrian.org
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