1 ========= Binutils Maintainers =========
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.
11 The home page for binutils is:
13 http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/binutils.html
15 and patches should be sent to:
17 binutils@sourceware.org
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:
22 config-patches@gnu.org
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).
30 --------- Blanket Write Privs ---------
32 The following people have permission to check patches into the
33 repository without obtaining approval first:
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>
46 --------- Maintainers ---------
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.
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.
59 ALPHA Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
60 AARCH64 Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
61 AARCH64 Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@arm.com>
62 ARM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
63 ARM Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
64 ARM Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@arm.com>
65 AVR Denis Chertykov <chertykov@gmail.com>
66 AVR Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@amelek.gda.pl>
67 BFIN Jie Zhang <jzhang918@gmail.com>
68 BFIN Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
69 BFIN Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
70 BUILD SYSTEM Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
71 CR16 M R Swami Reddy <MR.Swami.Reddy@nsc.com>
72 CRIS Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
73 CRX M R Swami Reddy <MR.Swami.Reddy@nsc.com>
74 DLX Nikolaos Kavvadias <nkavv@physics.auth.gr>
75 DWARF2 Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
76 DWARF2 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
77 EPIPHANY Joern Rennecke <joern.rennecke@embecosm.com>
78 FR30 Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
79 FRV Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
80 FRV Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
81 GOLD Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
82 GOLD Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com>
83 H8300 Prafulla Thakare <prafulla.thakare@kpitcummins.com>
84 HPPA Dave Anglin <dave.anglin@nrc.ca>
85 HPPA elf32 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
86 HPPA elf64 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> [Basic maintainance only]
87 IA-64 Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>
88 IQ2000 Stan Cox <scox@redhat.com>
89 i860 Jason Eckhardt <jle@rice.edu>
90 ix86 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
91 ix86 PE Christopher Faylor <me+binutils@cgf.cx>
92 ix86 COFF DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
93 ix86 PE/COFF Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>
94 ix86 INTEL MODE Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
95 LM32 Jon Beniston <jon@beniston.com>
96 M32R Doug Evans <dje@sebabeach.org>
97 M68HC11 M68HC12 Stephane Carrez <Stephane.Carrez@gmail.com>
98 M68HC11 M68HC12 Sean Keys <skeys@ipdatasys.com>
99 M88k Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
100 MACH-O Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
101 MAXQ Inderpreet Singh <inderpreetb@noida.hcltech.com>
102 MEP Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
103 METAG Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
104 MICROBLAZE Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com>
105 MIPS Eric Christopher <echristo@apple.com>
106 MIPS Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com>
107 MMIX Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
108 MN10300 Eric Christopher <echristo@apple.com>
109 MN10300 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
110 Moxie Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
111 MSP430 Dmitry Diky <diwil@spec.ru>
112 NDS32 Kuan-Lin Chen <kuanlinchentw@gmail.com>
113 NDS32 Wei-Cheng Wang <cole945@gmail.com>
114 NetBSD support Matt Thomas <matt@netbsd.org>
115 Nios II Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>
116 Nios II Andrew Jenner <andrew@codesourcery.com>
117 OR1K Christian Svensson <blue@cmd.nu>
118 OR1K Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
119 PPC Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
120 PPC Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
121 PPC Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com>
122 PPC vector ext Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
123 RISC-V Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
124 RISC-V Andrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>
125 RL78 DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
126 RX DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
127 RX Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
128 s390, s390x Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
129 s390, s390x Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
130 SCORE Mei Ligang <ligang@sunnorth.com.cn>
131 SH Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
132 SH Kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
133 SPARC David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
134 SPARC Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
135 SPU Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
136 TIC4X Svein Seldal <svein@dev.seldal.com>
137 TIC54X Timothy Wall <twall@alum.mit.edu>
138 TIC6X Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
139 TILE-Gx Walter Lee <walt@tilera.com>
140 TILEPro Walter Lee <walt@tilera.com>
141 VAX Matt Thomas <matt@netbsd.org>
142 VAX Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
143 VMS Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
144 x86_64 Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
145 x86_64 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
146 x86_64 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
147 XCOFF Richard Sandiford <r.sandiford@uk.ibm.com>
148 XGATE Sean Keys <skeys@ipdatasys.com>
149 Xtensa Sterling Augustine <augustine.sterling@gmail.com>
150 z80 Arnold Metselaar <arnold.metselaar@planet.nl>
151 z8k Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>
153 --------- Past Maintainers -------------
155 These folks have acted as maintainers in the past, but have now
156 moved on to other things. Our thanks for all their hard work
162 --------- CGEN Maintainers -------------
164 CGEN is a tool for building, amongst other things, assemblers,
165 disassemblers and simulators from a single description of a CPU.
166 It creates files in several of the binutils directories, but it
167 is mentioned here since there is a single group that maintains
168 CGEN and the files that it creates.
170 If you have CGEN related problems you can send email to;
174 The current CGEN maintainers are:
176 Doug Evans, Frank Eigler
178 --------- Write After Approval ---------
180 Individuals with "write after approval" have the ability to check in
181 changes, but they must get approval for each change from someone in
182 one of the above lists (blanket write or maintainers).
184 [It's a huge list, folks. You know who you are. If you have the
185 *ability* to do binutils checkins, you're in this group. Just
186 remember to get approval before checking anything in.]
188 ------------- Obvious Fixes -------------
190 Fixes for obvious mistakes do not need approval, and can be checked in
191 right away, but the patch should still be sent to the binutils list.
192 The definition of obvious is a bit hazy, and if you are not sure, then
193 you should seek approval first. Obvious fixes include fixes for
194 spelling mistakes, blatantly incorrect code (where the correct code is
195 also blatantly obvious), and so on. Obvious fixes should always be
196 small, the larger they are, the more likely it is that they contain
197 some un-obvious side effect or consequence.
199 --------- Branch Checkins ---------
201 If a patch is approved for check in to the mainline sources, it can
202 also be checked into the current release branch. Normally however
203 only bug fixes should be applied to the branch. New features, new
204 ports, etc, should be restricted to the mainline. (Otherwise the
205 burden of maintaining the branch in sync with the mainline becomes too
206 great). If you are uncertain as to whether a patch is appropriate for
207 the branch, ask the branch maintainer. This is:
209 Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
211 -------- Testsuites ---------------
213 In general patches to any of the binutils testsuites should be
214 considered generic and sent to the binutils mailing list for
215 approval. Patches to target specific tests are the responsibility the
216 relevant port maintainer(s), and can be approved/checked in by them.
217 Other testsuite patches need the approval of a blanket-write-priveleges
220 -------- Configure patches ----------
222 Patches to the top level configure files (config.sub & config.guess)
223 are not the domain of the binutils project and they cannot be approved
224 by the binutils group. Instead they should be submitted to the config
227 config-patches@gnu.org
229 --------- Creating Branches ---------
231 Anyone with at least write-after-approval access may create a branch
232 to use for their own development purposes. In keeping with FSF
233 policies, all patches applied to such a branch must come from people
234 with appropriate copyright assignments on file. All legal
235 requirements that would apply to any other contribution apply equally
236 to contributions on a branch.
238 Before creating the branch, you should select a name for the branch of
241 binutils-<org>-<name>
243 where "org" is the initials of your organization, or your own initials
244 if you are acting as an individual. For example, for a branch created
245 by The GNUDist Company, "tgc" would be an appropriate choice for
246 "org". It's up to each organization to select an appropriate choice
247 for "name"; some organizations may use more structure than others, so
248 "name" may contain additional hyphens.
250 Suppose that The GNUDist Company was creating a branch to develop a
251 port of Binutils to the FullMonty processor. Then, an appropriate
252 choice of branch name would be:
256 A date stamp is not required as part of the name field, but some
257 organizations like to have one. If you do include the date, you
258 should follow these rules:
260 1. The date should be the date that the branch was created.
262 2. The date should be numerical and in the form YYYYMMDD.
266 binutils-tgc-fm_20050101
268 would be appropriate if the branch was created on January 1st, 2005.
270 Having selected the branch name, create the branch as follows:
272 1. Check out binutils, so that you have a git checkout corresponding
273 to the initial state of your branch.
277 git tag binutils-<org>-<name>-branchpoint
279 That tag will allow you, and others, to easily determine what's
280 changed on the branch relative to the initial state.
282 3. Create and push the branch:
284 git checkout -b binutils-<org>-<name>-branch
287 4. Document the branch:
289 Add a description of the branch to binutils/BRANCHES, and check
290 that file in. All branch descriptions should be added to the
291 HEAD revision of the file; it doesn't help to modify
292 binutils/BRANCHES on a branch!
294 Please do not commit any patches to a branch you did not create
295 without the explicit permission of the person who created the branch.
297 Copyright (C) 2012-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
299 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
300 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
301 notice and this notice are preserved.
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