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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
162Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
163Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
164Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
165Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
166Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
167Stan Shebs shebs@mozilla.com
168Michael Snyder msnyder@specifix.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
201
202
203 Responsible Maintainers
204 -----------------------
205
206These developers have agreed to review patches in specific areas of GDB, in
207which they have knowledge and experience. These areas are generally broad;
208the role of a responsible maintainer is to provide coherent and cohesive
209structure within their area of GDB, to assure that patches from many
210different contributors all work together for the best results.
211
212Global maintainers will defer to responsible maintainers within their areas,
213as long as the responsible maintainer is active. Active means that
214responsible maintainers agree to review submitted patches in their area
215promptly; patches and followups should generally be answered within a week.
216If a responsible maintainer is interested in reviewing a patch but will not
217have time within a week of posting, the maintainer should send an
218acknowledgement of the patch to the gdb-patches mailing list, and
219plan to follow up with a review within a month. These deadlines are for
220initial responses to a patch - if the maintainer has suggestions
221or questions, it may take an extended discussion before the patch
222is ready to commit. There are no written requirements for discussion,
223but maintainers are asked to be responsive.
224
225If a responsible maintainer misses these deadlines occasionally (e.g.
226vacation or unexpected workload), it's not a disaster - any global
227maintainer may step in to review the patch. But sometimes life intervenes
228more permanently, and a maintainer may no longer have time for these duties.
229When this happens, he or she should step down (either into the Authorized
230Committers section if still interested in the area, or simply removed from
231the list of Responsible Maintainers if not).
232
233If a responsible maintainer is unresponsive for an extended period of time
234without stepping down, please contact the Global Maintainers; they will try
235to contact the maintainer directly and fix the problem - potentially by
236removing that maintainer from their listed position.
237
238If there are several maintainers for a given domain then any one of them
239may review a submitted patch.
240
241Target Instruction Set Architectures:
242
243The *-tdep.c files. ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) and OS-ABI
244(Operating System / Application Binary Interface) issues including CPU
245variants.
246
247The Target/Architecture maintainer works with the host maintainer when
248resolving build issues. The Target/Architecture maintainer works with
249the native maintainer when resolving ABI issues.
250
251 alpha --target=alpha-elf ,-Werror
252
253 arm --target=arm-elf ,-Werror
254 Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
255
256 avr --target=avr ,-Werror
257
258 cris --target=cris-elf ,-Werror ,
259 (sim does not build with -Werror)
260
261 frv --target=frv-elf ,-Werror
262
263 h8300 --target=h8300-elf ,-Werror
264
265 i386 --target=i386-elf ,-Werror
266 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
267
268 ia64 --target=ia64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
269 (--target=ia64-elf broken)
270
271 m32c --target=m32c-elf ,-Werror
272 Jim Blandy, jimb@codesourcery.com
273
274 m32r --target=m32r-elf ,-Werror
275
276 m68hc11 --target=m68hc11-elf ,-Werror ,
277 Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
278
279 m68k --target=m68k-elf ,-Werror
280
281 m88k --target=m88k-openbsd ,-Werror
282 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
283
284 mcore Deleted
285
286 mep --target=mep-elf ,-Werror
287 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
288
289 mips --target=mips-elf ,-Werror
290
291 mn10300 --target=mn10300-elf broken
292 (sim/ dies with make -j)
293 Michael Snyder msnyder@specifix.com
294
295 ms1 --target=ms1-elf ,-Werror
296 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
297
298 ns32k Deleted
299
300 pa --target=hppa-elf ,-Werror
301
302 powerpc --target=powerpc-eabi ,-Werror
303
304 s390 --target=s390-linux-gnu ,-Werror
305
306 score --target=score-elf
307 Qinwei qinwei@sunnorth.com.cn
308
309 sh --target=sh-elf ,-Werror
310 --target=sh64-elf ,-Werror
311
312 sparc --target=sparc64-solaris2.10 ,-Werror
313 (--target=sparc-elf broken)
314
315 spu --target=spu-elf ,-Werror
316 Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
317
318 v850 --target=v850-elf ,-Werror
319
320 vax --target=vax-netbsd ,-Werror
321
322 x86-64 --target=x86_64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
323
324 xstormy16 --target=xstormy16-elf
325 Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
326
327 xtensa --target=xtensa-elf
328 Maxim Grigoriev maxim2405@gmail.com
329
330All developers recognized by this file can make arbitrary changes to
331OBSOLETE targets.
332
333The Bourne shell script gdb_mbuild.sh can be used to rebuild all the
334above targets.
335
336
337Host/Native:
338
339The Native maintainer is responsible for target specific native
340support - typically shared libraries and quirks to procfs/ptrace/...
341The Native maintainer works with the Arch and Core maintainers when
342resolving more generic problems.
343
344The host maintainer ensures that gdb can be built as a cross debugger on
345their platform.
346
347AIX Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
348
349djgpp native Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
350GNU Hurd Alfred M. Szmidt ams@gnu.org
351MS Windows (NT, '00, 9x, Me, XP) host & native
352 Chris Faylor cgf@alum.bu.edu
353GNU/Linux/x86 native & host
354 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
355GNU/Linux MIPS native & host
356 Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
357GNU/Linux m68k Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
358FreeBSD native & host Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
359
360
361
362Core: Generic components used by all of GDB
363
364tracing Michael Snyder msnyder@specifix.com
365threads Michael Snyder msnyder@specifix.com
366 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
367language support
368 Ada Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
369 Paul Hilfinger hilfinger@gnat.com
370 C++ Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
371 Objective C support Adam Fedor fedor@gnu.org
372shared libs Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
373
374documentation Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
375 (including NEWS)
376testsuite
377 gdbtk (gdb.gdbtk) Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
378 threads (gdb.threads) Michael Snyder msnyder@specifix.com
379 trace (gdb.trace) Michael Snyder msnyder@specifix.com
380
381
382UI: External (user) interfaces.
383
384gdbtk (c & tcl) Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
385 Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
386libgui (w/foundry, sn) Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
387
388
389Misc:
390
391gdb/gdbserver Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
392
393Makefile.in, configure* ALL
394
395mmalloc/ ALL Host maintainers
396
397sim/ See sim/MAINTAINERS
398
399readline/ Master version: ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/
400 ALL
401 Host maintainers (host dependant parts)
402 (but get your changes into the master version)
403
404tcl/ tk/ itcl/ ALL
405
406
407 Authorized Committers
408 ---------------------
409
410These are developers working on particular areas of GDB, who are trusted to
411commit their own (or other developers') patches in those areas without
412further review from a Global Maintainer or Responsible Maintainer. They are
413under no obligation to review posted patches - but, of course, are invited
414to do so!
415
416PowerPC Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
417CRIS Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
418IA64 Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
419MIPS Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
420m32r Kei Sakamoto sakamoto.kei@renesas.com
421PowerPC Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
422CRIS Orjan Friberg orjanf@axis.com
423HPPA Randolph Chung tausq@debian.org
424S390 Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
425djgpp DJ Delorie dj@delorie.com
426 [Please use this address to contact DJ about DJGPP]
427tui Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
428ia64 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
429AIX Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
430GNU/Linux PPC native Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
431gdb.java tests Anthony Green green@redhat.com
432FreeBSD native & host David O'Brien obrien@freebsd.org
433event loop Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
434generic symtabs Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
435dwarf readers Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
436elf reader Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
437stabs reader Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
438readline/ Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
439NetBSD native & host Jason Thorpe thorpej@netbsd.org
440Pascal support Pierre Muller muller@sources.redhat.com
441avr Theodore A. Roth troth@openavr.org
442Modula-2 support Gaius Mulley gaius@glam.ac.uk
443
444
445 Write After Approval
446 (alphabetic)
447
448To get recommended for the Write After Approval list you need a valid
449FSF assignment and have submitted one good patch.
450
451Pedro Alves pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt
452David Anderson davea@sgi.com
453John David Anglin dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
454Shrinivas Atre shrinivasa@kpitcummins.com
455Scott Bambrough scottb@netwinder.org
456Thiago Jung Bauermann bauerman@br.ibm.com
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
475Ludovic Courtès ludo@gnu.org
476DJ Delorie dj@redhat.com
477Philippe De Muyter phdm@macqel.be
478Dhananjay Deshpande dhananjayd@kpitcummins.com
479Klee Dienes kdienes@apple.com
480Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
481Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
482Steve Ellcey sje@cup.hp.com
483Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
484Ben Elliston bje@gnu.org
485Doug Evans dje@google.com
486Adam Fedor fedor@gnu.org
487Brian Ford ford@vss.fsi.com
488Orjan Friberg orjanf@axis.com
489Nathan Froyd froydnj@codesourcery.com
490Gary Funck gary@intrepid.com
491Paul Gilliam pgilliam@us.ibm.com
492Raoul Gough RaoulGough@yahoo.co.uk
493Anthony Green green@redhat.com
494Matthew Green mrg@eterna.com.au
495Maxim Grigoriev maxim2405@gmail.com
496Jerome Guitton guitton@act-europe.fr
497Ben Harris bjh21@netbsd.org
498Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
499Aldy Hernandez aldyh@redhat.com
500Paul Hilfinger hilfinger@gnat.com
501Matt Hiller hiller@redhat.com
502Kazu Hirata kazu@cs.umass.edu
503Jeff Holcomb jeffh@redhat.com
504Don Howard dhoward@redhat.com
505Martin Hunt hunt@redhat.com
506Jim Ingham jingham@apple.com
507Baurzhan Ismagulov ibr@radix50.net
508Manoj Iyer manjo@austin.ibm.com
509Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
510Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
511Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
512Geoff Keating geoffk@redhat.com
513Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
514Jim Kingdon kingdon@panix.com
515Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
516Jonathan Larmour jlarmour@redhat.co.uk
517Jeff Law law@redhat.com
518David Lecomber david@streamline-computing.com
519Robert Lipe rjl@sco.com
520H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
521Michal Ludvig mludvig@suse.cz
522Luis Machado luisgpm@br.ibm.com
523Glen McCready gkm@redhat.com
524Greg McGary greg@mcgary.org
525Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
526Bryce McKinlay mckinlay@redhat.com
527Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
528David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
529Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
530Marko Mlinar markom@opencores.org
531Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
532Jason Molenda jmolenda@apple.com
533Pierre Muller muller@sources.redhat.com
534Gaius Mulley gaius@glam.ac.uk
535Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
536Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
537Adam Nemet anemet@caviumnetworks.com
538Nathanael Nerode neroden@gcc.gnu.org
539Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
540David O'Brien obrien@freebsd.org
541Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
542Denis Pilat denis.pilat@st.com
543Vladimir Prus vladimir@codesourcery.com
544Qinwei qinwei@sunnorth.com.cn
545Ramana Radhakrishnan ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com
546Frederic Riss frederic.riss@st.com
547Tom Rix trix@redhat.com
548Nick Roberts nickrob@snap.net.nz
549Bob Rossi bob_rossi@cox.net
550Theodore A. Roth troth@openavr.org
551Ian Roxborough irox@redhat.com
552Maciej W. Rozycki macro@linux-mips.org
553Grace Sainsbury graces@redhat.com
554Kei Sakamoto sakamoto.kei@renesas.com
555Mark Salter msalter@redhat.com
556Richard Sandiford richard@codesourcery.com
557Peter Schauer Peter.Schauer@mytum.de
558Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
559Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
560Carlos Eduardo Seo cseo@linux.vnet.ibm.com
561Stan Shebs shebs@mozilla.com
562Mark Shinwell shinwell@codesourcery.com
563Aidan Skinner aidan@velvet.net
564Jiri Smid smid@suse.cz
565David Smith dsmith@redhat.com
566Stephen P. Smith ischis2@cox.net
567Jackie Smith Cashion jsmith@redhat.com
568Michael Snyder msnyder@specifix.com
569Petr Sorfa petrs@caldera.com
570Andrew Stubbs andrew.stubbs@st.com
571Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
572Gary Thomas gthomas@redhat.com
573Jason Thorpe thorpej@netbsd.org
574Caroline Tice ctice@apple.com
575Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
576David Ung davidu@mips.com
577D Venkatasubramanian dvenkat@noida.hcltech.com
578Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
579Keith Walker keith.walker@arm.com
580Kris Warkentin kewarken@qnx.com
581Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
582Nathan Williams nathanw@wasabisystems.com
583Bob Wilson bob.wilson@acm.org
584Jim Wilson wilson@specifix.com
585Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
586Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
587Wu Zhou woodzltc@cn.ibm.com
588Yoshinori Sato ysato@users.sourceforge.jp
589
590
591 Past Maintainers
592
593Whenever removing yourself, or someone else, from this file, consider
594listing their areas of development here for posterity.
595
596Jimmy Guo (gdb.hp, tui) guo at cup dot hp dot com
597Jeff Law (hppa) law at cygnus dot com
598Daniel Berlin (C++ support) dan at cgsoftware dot com
599Nick Duffek (powerpc, SCO, Sol/x86) nick at duffek dot com
600David Taylor (d10v, sparc, utils, defs,
601 expression evaluator, language support) taylor at candd dot org
602J.T. Conklin (dcache, NetBSD, remote, global) jtc at acorntoolworks dot com
603Frank Ch. Eigler (sim) fche at redhat dot com
604Per Bothner (Java) per at bothner dot com
605Anthony Green (Java) green at redhat dot com
606Fernando Nasser (testsuite/, mi, cli, KOD) fnasser at redhat dot com
607Mark Salter (testsuite/lib+config) msalter at redhat dot com
608Jim Kingdon (web pages) kingdon at panix dot com
609Jim Ingham (gdbtk, libgui) jingham at apple dot com
610Mark Kettenis (hurd native) kettenis at gnu dot org
611Ian Roxborough (in-tree tcl, tk, itcl) irox at redhat dot com
612Robert Lipe (SCO/Unixware) rjl at sco dot com
613Peter Schauer (global, AIX, xcoffsolib,
614 Solaris/x86) Peter.Schauer at mytum dot de
615Scott Bambrough (ARM) scottb at netwinder dot org
616Philippe De Muyter (coff) phdm at macqel dot be
617Michael Chastain (testsuite) mec.gnu at mindspring dot com
618Fred Fish (global)
619
620
621
622Folks that have been caught up in a paper trail:
623
624David Carlton carlton@bactrian.org
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