binutils/MAINTAINERS

   1                 ========= Binutils Maintainers =========
   2
   3 This is the list of individuals responsible for maintenance and update
   4 of the GNU Binary Utilities project.  This includes the linker (ld),
   5 the assembler (gas), the profiler (gprof), a whole suite of other
   6 programs (binutils) and the libraries that they use (bfd and
   7 opcodes).  This project shares a common set of header files with the
   8 GCC and GDB projects (include), so maintainership of those files is
   9 shared amoungst the projects.
  10
  11 The home page for binutils is:
  12
  13   http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/binutils.html
  14
  15 and patches should be sent to:
  16
  17   binutils@sourceware.org
  18
  19 with "[Patch]" as part of the subject line.  Note - patches to the
  20 top level config.guess and config.sub scripts should be sent to:
  21
  22   config-patches@gnu.org
  23
  24 and not to the binutils lists.  Patches to the other top level
  25 configure files (configure, configure.in, config-ml.in) should
  26 be sent to the binutils lists, and copied to the gcc and gdb
  27 lists as well (gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org and
  28 gdb-patches@sourceware.org).
  29
  30                 --------- Blanket Write Privs ---------
  31
  32 The following people have permission to check patches into the
  33 repository without obtaining approval first:
  34
  35   Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> (head maintainer)
  36   Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
  37   Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
  38   Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
  39   Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>
  40   DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
  41   Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
  42   Michael Meissner <gnu@the-meissners.org>
  43   Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
  44   Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
  45
  46       --------- Maintainers ---------
  47
  48 Maintainers are individuals who are responsible for, and have
  49 permission to check in changes in, certain subsets of the code.  Note
  50 that maintainers still need approval to check in changes outside of
  51 the immediate domain that they maintain.
  52
  53 If there is no maintainer for a given domain then the responsibility
  54 falls to the head maintainer (above).  If there are several
  55 maintainers for a given domain then responsibility falls to the first
  56 maintainer.  The first maintainer is free to devolve that
  57 responsibility among the other maintainers.
  58
  59   ALPHA            Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
  60   ARM              Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
  61   ARM              Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
  62   ARM              Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
  63   ARM (Symbian)    Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
  64   AVR              Denis Chertykov <denisc@overta.ru>
  65   AVR              Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@amelek.gda.pl>
  66   BFIN             Jie Zhang <jzhang918@gmail.com>
  67   BFIN             Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
  68   BFIN             Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
  69   BUILD SYSTEM     Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
  70   CR16             M R Swami Reddy <MR.Swami.Reddy@nsc.com>
  71   CRIS             Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
  72   CRX              M R Swami Reddy <MR.Swami.Reddy@nsc.com>
  73   DLX              Nikolaos Kavvadias <nkavv@physics.auth.gr>
  74   DWARF2           Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
  75   DWARF2           Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
  76   EPIPHANY         Joern Rennecke <joern.rennecke@embecosm.com>
  77   FR30             Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
  78   FRV              Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
  79   FRV              Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
  80   H8300            Prafulla Thakare <prafulla.thakare@kpitcummins.com>
  81   HPPA             Dave Anglin <dave.anglin@nrc.ca>
  82   HPPA elf32       Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
  83   HPPA elf64       Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> [Basic maintainance only]
  84   IA-64            Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>
  85   IQ2000           Stan Cox <scox@redhat.com>
  86   i860             Jason Eckhardt <jle@rice.edu>
  87   ix86             H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
  88   ix86 PE          Christopher Faylor <me+binutils@cgf.cx>
  89   ix86 COFF        DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
  90   ix86 PE/COFF     Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>
  91   ix86 INTEL MODE  Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
  92   LM32             Jon Beniston <jon@beniston.com>
  93   M32R             Doug Evans <dje@sebabeach.org>
  94   M68HC11 M68HC12  Stephane Carrez <stcarrez@nerim.fr>
  95   M88k             Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
  96   MACH-O           Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
  97   MAXQ             Inderpreet Singh <inderpreetb@noida.hcltech.com>
  98   MEP              Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
  99   MICROBLAZE       Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com>
 100   MIPS             Eric Christopher <echristo@apple.com>
 101   MMIX             Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
 102   MN10300          Eric Christopher <echristo@apple.com>
 103   MN10300          Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
 104   Moxie            Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
 105   MSP430           Dmitry Diky <diwil@spec.ru>
 106   NetBSD support   Matt Thomas <matt@netbsd.org>
 107   PPC              Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
 108   PPC              Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
 109   PPC vector ext   Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
 110   RX               DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
 111   RX               Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
 112   s390, s390x      Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
 113   SCORE            Mei Ligang <ligang@sunnorth.com.cn>
 114   SH               Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
 115   SH               Kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
 116   SPARC            David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
 117   SPU              Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
 118   TIC4X            Svein Seldal <svein@dev.seldal.com>
 119   TIC54X           Timothy Wall <twall@alum.mit.edu>
 120   TIC6X            Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
 121   VAX              Matt Thomas <matt@netbsd.org>
 122   VAX              Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
 123   VMS              Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
 124   x86_64           Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
 125   x86_64           Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
 126   x86_64           H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
 127   XCOFF            Richard Sandiford <r.sandiford@uk.ibm.com>
 128   Xtensa           Sterling Augustine <augustine.sterling@gmail.com>
 129   z80              Arnold Metselaar <arnold.metselaar@planet.nl>
 130   z8k              Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>
 131
 132
 133       --------- CGEN Maintainers -------------
 134
 135 CGEN is a tool for building, amongst other things, assemblers,
 136 disassemblers and simulators from a single description of a CPU.
 137 It creates files in several of the binutils directories, but it
 138 is mentioned here since there is a single group that maintains
 139 CGEN and the files that it creates.
 140
 141 If you have CGEN related problems you can send email to;
 142
 143    cgen@sourceware.org
 144
 145 The current CGEN maintainers are:
 146
 147   Doug Evans, Frank Eigler
 148
 149      --------- Write After Approval ---------
 150
 151 Individuals with "write after approval" have the ability to check in
 152 changes, but they must get approval for each change from someone in
 153 one of the above lists (blanket write or maintainers).
 154
 155 [It's a huge list, folks.  You know who you are.  If you have the
 156  *ability* to do binutils checkins, you're in this group.  Just
 157  remember to get approval before checking anything in.]
 158
 159      -------------  Obvious Fixes -------------
 160
 161 Fixes for obvious mistakes do not need approval, and can be checked in
 162 right away, but the patch should still be sent to the binutils list.
 163 The definition of obvious is a bit hazy, and if you are not sure, then
 164 you should seek approval first.  Obvious fixes include fixes for
 165 spelling mistakes, blatantly incorrect code (where the correct code is
 166 also blatantly obvious), and so on.  Obvious fixes should always be
 167 small, the larger they are, the more likely it is that they contain
 168 some un-obvious side effect or consequence.
 169
 170     --------- Branch Checkins ---------
 171
 172 If a patch is approved for check in to the mainline sources, it can
 173 also be checked into the current release branch.  Normally however
 174 only bug fixes should be applied to the branch.  New features, new
 175 ports, etc, should be restricted to the mainline.  (Otherwise the
 176 burden of maintaining the branch in sync with the mainline becomes too
 177 great).  If you are uncertain as to whether a patch is appropriate for
 178 the branch, ask the branch maintainer.  This is:
 179
 180    Tristan Gingold  <gingold@adacore.com>
 181
 182     -------- Testsuites ---------------
 183
 184 In general patches to any of the binutils testsuites should be
 185 considered generic and sent to the binutils mailing list for
 186 approval.  Patches to target specific tests are the responsibility the
 187 relevent port maintainer(s), and can be approved/checked in by them.
 188 Other testsuite patches need the approval of a blanket-write-priveleges
 189 person.
 190
 191     -------- Configure patches ----------
 192
 193 Patches to the top level configure files (config.sub & config.guess)
 194 are not the domain of the binutils project and they cannot be approved
 195 by the binutils group.  Instead they should be submitted to the config
 196 maintainer at:
 197
 198         config-patches@gnu.org
 199
 200     --------- Creating Branches ---------
 201
 202 Anyone with at least write-after-approval access may create a branch
 203 to use for their own development purposes.  In keeping with FSF
 204 policies, all patches applied to such a branch must come from people
 205 with appropriate copyright assignments on file.  All legal
 206 requirements that would apply to any other contribution apply equally
 207 to contributions on a branch.
 208
 209 Before creating the branch, you should select a name for the branch of
 210 the form:
 211
 212   binutils-<org>-<name>
 213
 214 where "org" is the initials of your organization, or your own initials
 215 if you are acting as an individual.  For example, for a branch created
 216 by The GNUDist Company, "tgc" would be an appropriate choice for
 217 "org".  It's up to each organization to select an appropriate choice
 218 for "name"; some organizations may use more structure than others, so
 219 "name" may contain additional hyphens.
 220
 221 Suppose that The GNUDist Company was creating a branch to develop a
 222 port of Binutils to the FullMonty processor.  Then, an appropriate
 223 choice of branch name would be:
 224
 225   binutils-tgc-fm
 226
 227 A date stamp is not required as part of the name field, but some
 228 organizations like to have one.  If you do include the date, you
 229 should follow these rules:
 230
 231 1. The date should be the date that the branch was created.
 232
 233 2. The date should be numerical and in the form YYYYMMDD.
 234
 235 For example:
 236
 237   binutils-tgc-fm_20050101
 238
 239 would be appropriate if the branch was created on January 1st, 2005.
 240
 241 Having selected the branch name, create the branch as follows:
 242
 243 1. Check out binutils, so that you have a CVS checkout corresponding
 244    to the initial state of your branch.
 245
 246 2. Create a tag:
 247
 248      cvs tag binutils-<org>-<name>-branchpoint
 249
 250    That tag will allow you, and others, to easily determine what's
 251    changed on the branch relative to the initial state.
 252
 253 3. Create the branch:
 254
 255      cvs rtag -b -r binutils-<org>-<name>-branchpoint \
 256        binutils-<org>-<name>-branch
 257
 258 4. Document the branch:
 259
 260      Add a description of the branch to binutils/BRANCHES, and check
 261      that file in.  All branch descriptions should be added to the
 262      HEAD revision of the file; it doesn't help to modify
 263      binutils/BRANCHES on a branch!
 264
 265 Please do not commit any patches to a branch you did not create
 266 without the explicit permission of the person who created the branch.