- GDB Maintainers
+ GDB Maintainers
+ ===============
- Global Maintainers
- (alphabetic)
+ Overview
+ --------
+
+This file describes different groups of people who are, together, the
+maintainers and developers of the GDB project. Don't worry - it sounds
+more complicated than it really is.
+
+There are four groups of GDB developers, covering the patch development and
+review process:
+
+ - The Global Maintainers.
+
+ These are the developers in charge of most daily development. They
+ have wide authority to apply and reject patches, but defer to the
+ Responsible Maintainers (see below) within their spheres of
+ responsibility.
+
+ - The Responsible Maintainers.
+
+ These are developers who have expertise and interest in a particular
+ area of GDB, who are generally available to review patches, and who
+ prefer to enforce a single vision within their areas.
+
+ - The Authorized Committers.
+
+ These are developers who are trusted to make changes within a specific
+ area of GDB without additional oversight.
+
+ - The Write After Approval Maintainers.
+
+ These are developers who have write access to the GDB source tree. They
+ can check in their own changes once a developer with the appropriate
+ authority has approved the changes; they can also apply the Obvious
+ Fix Rule (below).
+
+All maintainers are encouraged to post major patches to the gdb-patches
+mailing list for comments, even if they have the authority to commit the
+patch without review from another maintainer. This especially includes
+patches which change internal interfaces (e.g. global functions, data
+structures) or external interfaces (e.g. user, remote, MI, et cetera).
+
+The term "review" is used in this file to describe several kinds of feedback
+from a maintainer: approval, rejection, and requests for changes or
+clarification with the intention of approving a revised version. Review is
+a privilege and/or responsibility of various positions among the GDB
+Maintainers. Of course, anyone - whether they hold a position but not the
+relevant one for a particular patch, or are just following along on the
+mailing lists for fun, or anything in between - may suggest changes or
+ask questions about a patch!
+
+There's also a couple of other people who play special roles in the GDB
+community, separately from the patch process:
+
+ - The GDB Steering Committee.
+
+ These are the official (FSF-appointed) maintainers of GDB. They have
+ final and overriding authority for all GDB-related decisions, including
+ anything described in this file. The committee is not generally
+ involved in day-to-day development (although its members may be, as
+ individuals).
+
+ - The Release Manager.
+
+ This developer is in charge of making new releases of GDB.
+
+ - The Patch Champions.
+
+ These volunteers make sure that no contribution is overlooked or
+ forgotten.
+
+Most changes to the list of maintainers in this file are handled by
+consensus among the global maintainers and any other involved parties.
+In cases where consensus can not be reached, the global maintainers may
+ask the Steering Committee for a final decision.
+
+
+ The Obvious Fix Rule
+ --------------------
+
+All maintainers listed in this file, including the Write After Approval
+developers, are allowed to check in obvious fixes.
+
+An "obvious fix" means that there is no possibility that anyone will
+disagree with the change.
+
+A good mental test is "will the person who hates my work the most be
+able to find fault with the change" - if so, then it's not obvious and
+needs to be posted first. :-)
+
+Something like changing or bypassing an interface is _not_ an obvious
+fix, since such a change without discussion will result in
+instantaneous and loud complaints.
+
+
+ GDB Steering Committee
+ ----------------------
+
+The members of the GDB Steering Committee are the FSF-appointed
+maintainers of the GDB project.
+
+The Steering Committee has final authority for all GDB-related topics;
+they may make whatever changes that they deem necessary, or that the FSF
+requests. However, they are generally not involved in day-to-day
+development.
+
+The current members of the steering committee are listed below, in
+alphabetical order. Their affiliations are provided for reference only -
+their membership on the Steering Committee is individual and not through
+their affiliation, and they act on behalf of the GNU project.
+
+ Jim Blandy (Red Hat)
+ Andrew Cagney (Red Hat)
+ Robert Dewar (AdaCore, NYU)
+ Klee Dienes (Apple)
+ Paul Hilfinger (UC Berkeley)
+ Dan Jacobowitz (CodeSourcery)
+ Stan Shebs (Apple)
+ Richard Stallman (FSF)
+ Ian Lance Taylor (C2)
+ Todd Whitesel
+
+
+ Global Maintainers
+ ------------------
+
+The global maintainers may review and commit any change to GDB, except in
+areas with a Responsible Maintainer available. For major changes, or
+changes to areas with other active developers, global maintainers are
+strongly encouraged to post their own patches for feedback before
+committing.
+
+The global maintainers are responsible for reviewing patches to any area
+for which no Responsible Maintainer is listed.
+
+Global maintainers also have the authority to revert patches which should
+not have been applied, e.g. patches which were not approved, controversial
+patches committed under the Obvious Fix Rule, patches with important bugs
+that can't be immediately fixed, or patches which go against an accepted and
+documented roadmap for GDB development. Any global maintainer may request
+the reversion of a patch. If no global maintainer, or responsible
+maintainer in the affected areas, supports the patch (except for the
+maintainer who originally committed it), then after 48 hours the maintainer
+who called for the reversion may revert the patch.
+
+No one may reapply a reverted patch without the agreement of the maintainer
+who reverted it, or bringing the issue to the GDB Steering Committee for
+discussion.
+
+At the moment there are no documented roadmaps for GDB development; in the
+future, if there are, a reference to the list will be included here.
+
+The current global maintainers are (in alphabetical order):
-Jim Blandy jimb@redhat.com
+Jim Blandy jimb@red-bean.com
Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
-Andrew Cagney ac131313@redhat.com
-J.T. Conklin jtc@redback.com
+Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
+J.T. Conklin jtc@acorntoolworks.com
Fred Fish fnf@ninemoons.com
Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
- Various Maintainers
+ Release Manager
+ ---------------
-Note individuals who maintain parts of the debugger need approval to
-check in changes outside of the immediate domain that they maintain.
+The current release manager is: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
-If there is no maintainer for a given domain then the responsibility
-falls to a global maintainer.
+His responsibilities are:
-If there are several maintainers for a given domain then
-responsibility falls to the first maintainer. The first maintainer is
-free to devolve that responsibility among the other maintainers.
+ * organizing, scheduling, and managing releases of GDB.
+ * deciding the approval and commit policies for release branches,
+ and can change them as needed.
- The Obvious Fix Rule
-All maintainers listed in this file are allowed to check in obvious
-fixes.
-An "obvious fix" means that there is no possibility that anyone will
-disagree with the change.
+ Patch Champions
+ ---------------
-A good mental test is "will the person who hates my work the most be
-able to find fault with the change" - if so, then it's not obvious and
-needs to be posted first. :-)
+These volunteers track all patches submitted to the gdb-patches list. They
+endeavor to prevent any posted patch from being overlooked; work with
+contributors to meet GDB's coding style and general requirements, along with
+FSF copyright assignments; remind (ping) responsible maintainers to review
+patches; and ensure that contributors are given credit.
-Something like changing or bypassing an interface is _not_ an obvious
-fix, since such a change without discussion will result in
-instantaneous and loud complaints.
+Current patch champions (in alphabetical order):
+
+ Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
+ Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
+
+
+
+ Responsible Maintainers
+ -----------------------
+These developers have agreed to review patches in specific areas of GDB, in
+which they have knowledge and experience. These areas are generally broad;
+the role of a responsible maintainer is to provide coherent and cohesive
+structure within their area of GDB, to assure that patches from many
+different contributors all work together for the best results.
+
+Global maintainers will defer to responsible maintainers within their areas,
+as long as the responsible maintainer is active. Active means that
+responsible maintainers agree to review submitted patches in their area
+promptly; patches and followups should generally be answered within a week.
+If a responsible maintainer is interested in reviewing a patch but will not
+have time within a week of posting, the maintainer should send an
+acknowledgement of the patch to the gdb-patches mailing list, and
+plan to follow up with a review within a month. These deadlines are for
+initial responses to a patch - if the maintainer has suggestions
+or questions, it may take an extended discussion before the patch
+is ready to commit. There are no written requirements for discussion,
+but maintainers are asked to be responsive.
+
+If a responsible maintainer misses these deadlines occasionally (e.g.
+vacation or unexpected workload), it's not a disaster - any global
+maintainer may step in to review the patch. But sometimes life intervenes
+more permanently, and a maintainer may no longer have time for these duties.
+When this happens, he or she should step down (either into the Authorized
+Committers section if still interested in the area, or simply removed from
+the list of Responsible Maintainers if not).
+
+If a responsible maintainer is unresponsive for an extended period of time
+without stepping down, please contact the Global Maintainers; they will try
+to contact the maintainer directly and fix the problem - potentially by
+removing that maintainer from their listed position.
+
+If there are several maintainers for a given domain then any one of them
+may review a submitted patch.
Target Instruction Set Architectures:
-Generic ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) issues, API variants, CPU
-variants. *-tdep.c. The Target/Architecture maintainer works with the
-host maintainer when resolving build issues. The Target/Architecture
-maintainer works with the native maintainer when resolving API issues.
+The *-tdep.c files. ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) and OS-ABI
+(Operating System / Application Binary Interface) issues including CPU
+variants.
- a29k Deleted.
+The Target/Architecture maintainer works with the host maintainer when
+resolving build issues. The Target/Architecture maintainer works with
+the native maintainer when resolving ABI issues.
alpha --target=alpha-elf ,-Werror
- Maintenance only
-
- arc Deleted.
arm --target=arm-elf ,-Werror
Scott Bambrough scottb@netwinder.org
Theodore A. Roth troth@openavr.org
cris --target=cris-elf ,-Werror
- Orjan Friberg orjanf@axis.com
-
- d10v --target=d10v-elf ,-Werror
- Maintenance only
- d30v Deleted.
-
- fr30 Deleted.
+ d10v OBSOLETE
frv --target=frv-elf ,-Werror
- Maintenance only
-
- h8300 --target=h8300hms ,-Werror
- Maintenance only
- h8500 Deleted.
+ h8300 --target=h8300-elf ,-Werror
i386 --target=i386-elf ,-Werror
Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
- i960 Deleted.
-
ia64 --target=ia64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
(--target=ia64-elf broken)
Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
m68k --target=m68k-elf ,-Werror
- Maintenance only
- m88k Deleted.
+ m88k --target=m88k-openbsd ,-Werror
+ Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
- mcore --target=mcore-elf ,-Werror
- Maintenance only
+ mcore Deleted
mips --target=mips-elf ,-Werror
- Andrew Cagney cagney@redhat.com
- mn10200 Deleted.
+ mn10300 --target=mn10300-elf broken
+ (sim/ dies with make -j)
+ Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
- mn10300 --target=mn10300-elf ,-Werror
- Maintenance only
+ ms1 --target=ms1-elf ,-Werror
+ Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
- ns32k --target=ns32k-netbsd ,-Werror
- Maintenance only
+ ns32k Deleted
pa --target=hppa-elf ,-Werror
- Maintenance only
powerpc --target=powerpc-eabi ,-Werror
- Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
s390 --target=s390-linux-gnu ,-Werror
- (contact DJ Barrow djbarrow@de.ibm.com)
sh --target=sh-elf ,-Werror
- Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
+ --target=sh64-elf ,-Werror
sparc --target=sparc-elf ,-Werror
- Maintenance only
-
- tic80 Deleted.
v850 --target=v850-elf ,-Werror
- Maintenance only
vax --target=vax-netbsd ,-Werror
- Maintenance only
-
- w65 Deleted.
x86-64 --target=x86_64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
- Maintenance only
- xstormy16 --target=xstormy16-elf ,-Werror
+ xstormy16 --target=xstormy16-elf
Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
- z8k Deleted.
-
All developers recognized by this file can make arbitrary changes to
OBSOLETE targets.
-All maintainers can test and thence approve non-trivial changes to
-``maintenance only'' targets submitted by recognized developers.
-
-All recognized developers can make mechanical changes (by virtue of
-the obvious fix rule) to ``maintenance only'' targets. The change
-shall be sanity checked by compiling with one of the listed targets.
-
The Bourne shell script gdb_mbuild.sh can be used to rebuild all the
above targets.
FreeBSD native & host Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
David O'Brien obrien@freebsd.org
hurd native Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
-NetBSD native & host Jason Thorpe thorpej@wasabisystems.com
+NetBSD native & host Jason Thorpe thorpej@netbsd.org
SCO/Unixware Robert Lipe rjl@sco.com
GNU/Linux ARM native Scott Bambrough scottb@netwinder.org
Solaris/x86 native & host (devolved)
Core: Generic components used by all of GDB
-generic arch support Andrew Cagney cagney@redhat.com
+generic arch support (Global Maintainers)
Any host/target maintainer can add to
- gdbarch.{c,h,sh}. Send tricky ones to cagney.
-target vector Andrew Cagney cagney@redhat.com
+ gdbarch.{c,h,sh}.
+target vector (Global Maintainers)
event loop Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
For the part of top.c related to the event loop,
send questions to ezannoni@redhat.com
-generic symtabs Jim Blandy jimb@redhat.com
- Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
- dwarf readers Jim Blandy jimb@redhat.com
- Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
- elf reader Jim Blandy jimb@redhat.com
- Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
- stabs reader Jim Blandy jimb@redhat.com
- Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
+generic symtabs Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
+ dwarf readers Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
+ elf reader Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
+ stabs reader Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
coff reader Philippe De Muyter phdm@macqel.be
xcoff reader Any maintainer can modify this; please send tricky
ones to Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
HP/UX readers Any [past] maintainer can modify this.
Please send tricky ones to the symtabs maintainers.
-tracing bytecode stuff Jim Blandy jimb@redhat.com
+tracing bytecode stuff (Global Maintainers)
tracing Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
threads Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
shared libs (devolved) Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
xcoffsolib Peter Schauer Peter.Schauer@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
-remote.c Andrew Cagney cagney@redhat.com
-include/remote-sim.h, remote-sim.c
- Andrew Cagney cagney@redhat.com
sds protocol (vacant)
rdi/adp protocol (vacant)
documentation Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
-testsuite (Global Maintainers)
- config Mark Salter msalter@redhat.com
+testsuite Michael Chastain mec.gnu@mindspring.com
+ (Global Maintainers)
+ lib/, config/, gdb.base/, ...
+ Michael Chastain mec.gnu@mindspring.com
+ (Global Maintainers)
gdbtk (gdb.gdbtk) Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
c++ (gdb.cp) Michael Chastain mec.gnu@mindspring.com
- David Carlton carlton@bactrian.org
- mi tests (gdb.mi) Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
- Andrew Cagney cagney@redhat.com
threads (gdb.threads) Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
+ Michael Chastain mec.gnu@mindspring.com
trace (gdb.trace) Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
hp tests (gdb.hp) (vacant)
Java tests (gdb.java) Anthony Green green@redhat.com
Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
libgui (w/foundry, sn) Jim Ingham jingham@apple.com
Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
-mi (gdb/mi) Andrew Cagney cagney@redhat.com
- Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
- Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
tui Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
(Global Maintainers)
tcl/ tk/ itcl/ Ian Roxborough irox@redhat.com
+
+ Authorized Committers
+ ---------------------
+
+These are developers working on particular areas of GDB, who are trusted to
+commit their own (or other developers') patches in those areas without
+further review from a Global Maintainer or Responsible Maintainer. They are
+under no obligation to review posted patches - but, of course, are invited
+to do so!
+
+ Andrew Cagney (powerpc, powerpc-linux)
+ Hans-Peter Nilsson (cris)
+ Jeff Johnston (ia64)
+ Joel Brobecker (mips)
+ Kei Sakamoto (m32r)
+ Kevin Buettner (powerpc)
+ Orjan Friberg (cris)
+ Randolph Chung (pa)
+ Ulrich Weigand (s390)
+
+
Write After Approval
(alphabetic)
FSF assignment and have submitted one good patch.
David Anderson davea@sgi.com
+John David Anglin dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Shrinivas Atre shrinivasa@kpitcummins.com
Scott Bambrough scottb@netwinder.org
-Jim Blandy jimb@redhat.com
+Jan Beulich jbeulich@novell.com
+Jim Blandy jimb@red-bean.com
Philip Blundell philb@gnu.org
Per Bothner per@bothner.com
Joel Brobecker brobecker@gnat.com
Dave Brolley brolley@redhat.com
Paul Brook paul@codesourcery.com
Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
-Andrew Cagney ac131313@redhat.com
+Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
David Carlton carlton@bactrian.org
Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
Michael Chastain mec.gnu@mindspring.com
+Eric Christopher echristo@apple.com
Randolph Chung tausq@debian.org
-Eric Christopher echristo@redhat.com
Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Brendan Conoboy blc@redhat.com
DJ Delorie dj@redhat.com
-Chris G. Demetriou cgd@broadcom.com
Philippe De Muyter phdm@macqel.be
Dhananjay Deshpande dhananjayd@kpitcummins.com
Klee Dienes kdienes@apple.com
Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
+Steve Ellcey sje@cup.hp.com
Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Ben Elliston bje@gnu.org
+Adam Fedor fedor@gnu.org
+Fred Fish fnf@ninemoons.com
Brian Ford ford@vss.fsi.com
+Orjan Friberg orjanf@axis.com
+Paul Gilliam pgilliam@us.ibm.com
Raoul Gough RaoulGough@yahoo.co.uk
Anthony Green green@redhat.com
Matthew Green mrg@eterna.com.au
Jerome Guitton guitton@act-europe.fr
-Adam Fedor fedor@gnu.org
-Fred Fish fnf@ninemoons.com
-Orjan Friberg orjanf@axis.com
Ben Harris bjh21@netbsd.org
Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Aldy Hernandez aldyh@redhat.com
Don Howard dhoward@redhat.com
Martin Hunt hunt@redhat.com
Jim Ingham jingham@apple.com
+Baurzhan Ismagulov ibr@radix50.net
+Manoj Iyer manjo@austin.ibm.com
Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
Glen McCready gkm@redhat.com
Greg McGary greg@mcgary.org
Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
+Bryce McKinlay mckinlay@redhat.com
Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Jason Molenda jmolenda@apple.com
Pierre Muller muller@sources.redhat.com
+Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
+Nathanael Nerode neroden@gcc.gnu.org
Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
David O'Brien obrien@freebsd.org
Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
+Ramana Radhakrishnan ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com
+Frederic Riss frederic.riss@st.com
Tom Rix trix@redhat.com
-Nick Roberts nick@nick.uklinux.net
+Nick Roberts nickrob@snap.net.nz
Bob Rossi bob_rossi@cox.net
Theodore A. Roth troth@openavr.org
Ian Roxborough irox@redhat.com
Grace Sainsbury graces@redhat.com
Kei Sakamoto sakamoto.kei@renesas.com
Mark Salter msalter@redhat.com
-Richard Sandiford rsandifo@redhat.com
+Richard Sandiford richard@codesourcery.com
Peter Schauer Peter.Schauer@regent
Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
Jackie Smith Cashion jsmith@redhat.com
Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
Petr Sorfa petrs@caldera.com
-Ian Lance Taylor ian@wasabisystems.com
+Andrew Stubbs andrew.stubbs@st.com
+Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
Gary Thomas gthomas@redhat.com
-Jason Thorpe thorpej@wasabisystems.com
+Jason Thorpe thorpej@netbsd.org
Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
+David Ung davidu@mips.com
D Venkatasubramanian dvenkat@noida.hcltech.com
Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Keith Walker keith.walker@arm.com
Jim Wilson wilson@specifixinc.com
Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
-
+Wu Zhou woodzltc@cn.ibm.com
+Yoshinori Sato ysato@users.sourceforge.jp
Past Maintainers
Per Bothner (Java) per at bothner dot com
Anthony Green (Java) green at redhat dot com
Fernando Nasser (testsuite/, mi, cli) fnasser at redhat dot com
-Mark Salter (testsuite/lib/) msalter at redhat dot com
+Mark Salter (testsuite/lib+config) msalter at redhat dot com
Folks that have been caught up in a paper trail:
-Chris Faylor cgf@alum.bu.edu
Jim Kingdon jkingdon@engr.sgi.com
David Carlton carlton@bactrian.org
-
---
-
-(*) Indicates folks that don't have a Kerberos/SSH account in the GDB
-group.
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