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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@PalmSource.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 d10v OBSOLETE
263
264 frv --target=frv-elf ,-Werror
265
266 h8300 --target=h8300-elf ,-Werror
267
268 i386 --target=i386-elf ,-Werror
269 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
270
271 ia64 --target=ia64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
272 (--target=ia64-elf broken)
273
274 m32c --target=m32c-elf ,-Werror
275 Jim Blandy, jimb@codesourcery.com
276
277 m32r --target=m32r-elf ,-Werror
278
279 m68hc11 --target=m68hc11-elf ,-Werror ,
280 Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
281
282 m68k --target=m68k-elf ,-Werror
283
284 m88k --target=m88k-openbsd ,-Werror
285 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
286
287 mcore Deleted
288
289 mep --target=mep-elf ,-Werror
290 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
291
292 mips --target=mips-elf ,-Werror
293
294 mn10300 --target=mn10300-elf broken
295 (sim/ dies with make -j)
296 Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@PalmSource.com
297
298 ms1 --target=ms1-elf ,-Werror
299 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
300
301 ns32k Deleted
302
303 pa --target=hppa-elf ,-Werror
304
305 powerpc --target=powerpc-eabi ,-Werror
306
307 s390 --target=s390-linux-gnu ,-Werror
308
309 score --target=score-elf
310 Qinwei qinwei@sunnorth.com.cn
311
312 sh --target=sh-elf ,-Werror
313 --target=sh64-elf ,-Werror
314
315 sparc --target=sparc64-solaris2.10 ,-Werror
316 (--target=sparc-elf broken)
317
318 spu --target=spu-elf ,-Werror
319 Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
320
321 v850 --target=v850-elf ,-Werror
322
323 vax --target=vax-netbsd ,-Werror
324
325 x86-64 --target=x86_64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
326
327 xstormy16 --target=xstormy16-elf
328 Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
329
330 xtensa --target=xtensa-elf
331 Maxim Grigoriev maxim2405@gmail.com
332
333All developers recognized by this file can make arbitrary changes to
334OBSOLETE targets.
335
336The Bourne shell script gdb_mbuild.sh can be used to rebuild all the
337above targets.
338
339
340Host/Native:
341
342The Native maintainer is responsible for target specific native
343support - typically shared libraries and quirks to procfs/ptrace/...
344The Native maintainer works with the Arch and Core maintainers when
345resolving more generic problems.
346
347The host maintainer ensures that gdb can be built as a cross debugger on
348their platform.
349
350AIX Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
351
352djgpp native Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
353GNU Hurd Alfred M. Szmidt ams@gnu.org
354MS Windows (NT, '00, 9x, Me, XP) host & native
355 Chris Faylor cgf@alum.bu.edu
356GNU/Linux/x86 native & host
357 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
358GNU/Linux MIPS native & host
359 Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
360GNU/Linux m68k Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
361FreeBSD native & host Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
362
363
364
365Core: Generic components used by all of GDB
366
367tracing Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@PalmSource.com
368threads Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@PalmSource.com
369 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
370language support
371 C++ Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
372 Objective C support Adam Fedor fedor@gnu.org
373shared libs Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
374
375documentation Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
376 (including NEWS)
377testsuite
378 gdbtk (gdb.gdbtk) Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
379 threads (gdb.threads) Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@PalmSource.com
380 trace (gdb.trace) Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@PalmSource.com
381
382
383UI: External (user) interfaces.
384
385gdbtk (c & tcl) Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
386 Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
387libgui (w/foundry, sn) Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
388
389
390Misc:
391
392gdb/gdbserver Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
393
394Makefile.in, configure* ALL
395
396mmalloc/ ALL Host maintainers
397
398sim/ See sim/MAINTAINERS
399
400readline/ Master version: ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/
401 ALL
402 Host maintainers (host dependant parts)
403 (but get your changes into the master version)
404
405tcl/ tk/ itcl/ ALL
406
407
408 Authorized Committers
409 ---------------------
410
411These are developers working on particular areas of GDB, who are trusted to
412commit their own (or other developers') patches in those areas without
413further review from a Global Maintainer or Responsible Maintainer. They are
414under no obligation to review posted patches - but, of course, are invited
415to do so!
416
417PowerPC Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
418CRIS Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
419IA64 Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
420MIPS Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
421m32r Kei Sakamoto sakamoto.kei@renesas.com
422PowerPC Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
423CRIS Orjan Friberg orjanf@axis.com
424HPPA Randolph Chung tausq@debian.org
425S390 Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
426djgpp DJ Delorie dj@delorie.com
427 [Please use this address to contact DJ about DJGPP]
428tui Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
429ia64 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
430AIX Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
431GNU/Linux PPC native Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
432gdb.java tests Anthony Green green@redhat.com
433FreeBSD native & host David O'Brien obrien@freebsd.org
434event loop Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
435generic symtabs Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
436dwarf readers Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
437elf reader Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
438stabs reader Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
439readline/ Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
440NetBSD native & host Jason Thorpe thorpej@netbsd.org
441Pascal support Pierre Muller muller@sources.redhat.com
442avr Theodore A. Roth troth@openavr.org
443Modula-2 support Gaius Mulley gaius@glam.ac.uk
444
445
446 Write After Approval
447 (alphabetic)
448
449To get recommended for the Write After Approval list you need a valid
450FSF assignment and have submitted one good patch.
451
452Pedro Alves pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt
453David Anderson davea@sgi.com
454John David Anglin dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
455Shrinivas Atre shrinivasa@kpitcummins.com
456Scott Bambrough scottb@netwinder.org
457Jan Beulich jbeulich@novell.com
458Jim Blandy jimb@codesourcery.com
459Philip Blundell philb@gnu.org
460Per Bothner per@bothner.com
461Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
462Dave Brolley brolley@redhat.com
463Paul Brook paul@codesourcery.com
464Julian Brown julian@codesourcery.com
465Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
466Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
467David Carlton carlton@bactrian.org
468Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
469Michael Chastain mec.gnu@mindspring.com
470Eric Christopher echristo@apple.com
471Randolph Chung tausq@debian.org
472Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
473J.T. Conklin jtc@acorntoolworks.com
474Brendan Conoboy blc@redhat.com
475DJ Delorie dj@redhat.com
476Philippe De Muyter phdm@macqel.be
477Dhananjay Deshpande dhananjayd@kpitcummins.com
478Klee Dienes kdienes@apple.com
479Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
480Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
481Steve Ellcey sje@cup.hp.com
482Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
483Ben Elliston bje@gnu.org
484Adam Fedor fedor@gnu.org
485Fred Fish fnf@ninemoons.com
486Brian Ford ford@vss.fsi.com
487Orjan Friberg orjanf@axis.com
488Nathan Froyd froydnj@codesourcery.com
489Gary Funck gary@intrepid.com
490Paul Gilliam pgilliam@us.ibm.com
491Raoul Gough RaoulGough@yahoo.co.uk
492Anthony Green green@redhat.com
493Matthew Green mrg@eterna.com.au
494Maxim Grigoriev maxim2405@gmail.com
495Jerome Guitton guitton@act-europe.fr
496Ben Harris bjh21@netbsd.org
497Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
498Aldy Hernandez aldyh@redhat.com
499Paul Hilfinger hilfinger@gnat.com
500Matt Hiller hiller@redhat.com
501Kazu Hirata kazu@cs.umass.edu
502Jeff Holcomb jeffh@redhat.com
503Don Howard dhoward@redhat.com
504Martin Hunt hunt@redhat.com
505Jim Ingham jingham@apple.com
506Baurzhan Ismagulov ibr@radix50.net
507Manoj Iyer manjo@austin.ibm.com
508Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
509Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
510Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
511Geoff Keating geoffk@redhat.com
512Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
513Jim Kingdon kingdon@panix.com
514Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
515Jonathan Larmour jlarmour@redhat.co.uk
516Jeff Law law@redhat.com
517David Lecomber david@streamline-computing.com
518Robert Lipe rjl@sco.com
519H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
520Michal Ludvig mludvig@suse.cz
521Glen McCready gkm@redhat.com
522Greg McGary greg@mcgary.org
523Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
524Bryce McKinlay mckinlay@redhat.com
525Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
526David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
527Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
528Marko Mlinar markom@opencores.org
529Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
530Jason Molenda jmolenda@apple.com
531Pierre Muller muller@sources.redhat.com
532Gaius Mulley gaius@glam.ac.uk
533Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
534Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
535Adam Nemet anemet@caviumnetworks.com
536Nathanael Nerode neroden@gcc.gnu.org
537Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
538David O'Brien obrien@freebsd.org
539Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
540Denis Pilat denis.pilat@st.com
541Vladimir Prus vladimir@codesourcery.com
542Qinwei qinwei@sunnorth.com.cn
543Ramana Radhakrishnan ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com
544Frederic Riss frederic.riss@st.com
545Tom Rix trix@redhat.com
546Nick Roberts nickrob@snap.net.nz
547Bob Rossi bob_rossi@cox.net
548Theodore A. Roth troth@openavr.org
549Ian Roxborough irox@redhat.com
550Grace Sainsbury graces@redhat.com
551Kei Sakamoto sakamoto.kei@renesas.com
552Mark Salter msalter@redhat.com
553Richard Sandiford richard@codesourcery.com
554Peter Schauer Peter.Schauer@mytum.de
555Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
556Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
557Stan Shebs shebs@mozilla.com
558Aidan Skinner aidan@velvet.net
559Jiri Smid smid@suse.cz
560David Smith dsmith@redhat.com
561Stephen P. Smith ischis2@cox.net
562Jackie Smith Cashion jsmith@redhat.com
563Michael Snyder Michael.Snyder@PalmSource.com
564Petr Sorfa petrs@caldera.com
565Andrew Stubbs andrew.stubbs@st.com
566Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
567Gary Thomas gthomas@redhat.com
568Jason Thorpe thorpej@netbsd.org
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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