8 This file describes different groups of people who are, together, the
9 maintainers and developers of the GDB project. Don't worry - it sounds
10 more complicated than it really is.
12 There are four groups of GDB developers, covering the patch development and
15 - The Global Maintainers.
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
22 - The Responsible Maintainers.
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.
28 - The Authorized Committers.
30 These are developers who are trusted to make changes within a specific
31 area of GDB without additional oversight.
33 - The Write After Approval Maintainers.
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
40 All maintainers are encouraged to post major patches to the gdb-patches
41 mailing list for comments, even if they have the authority to commit the
42 patch without review from another maintainer. This especially includes
43 patches which change internal interfaces (e.g. global functions, data
44 structures) or external interfaces (e.g. user, remote, MI, et cetera).
46 The term "review" is used in this file to describe several kinds of feedback
47 from a maintainer: approval, rejection, and requests for changes or
48 clarification with the intention of approving a revised version. Review is
49 a privilege and/or responsibility of various positions among the GDB
50 Maintainers. Of course, anyone - whether they hold a position but not the
51 relevant one for a particular patch, or are just following along on the
52 mailing lists for fun, or anything in between - may suggest changes or
53 ask questions about a patch!
55 There's also a couple of other people who play special roles in the GDB
56 community, separately from the patch process:
58 - The GDB Steering Committee.
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
66 - The Release Manager.
68 This developer is in charge of making new releases of GDB.
70 - The Patch Champions.
72 These volunteers make sure that no contribution is overlooked or
75 Most changes to the list of maintainers in this file are handled by
76 consensus among the global maintainers and any other involved parties.
77 In cases where consensus can not be reached, the global maintainers may
78 ask the Steering Committee for a final decision.
84 All maintainers listed in this file, including the Write After Approval
85 developers, are allowed to check in obvious fixes.
87 An "obvious fix" means that there is no possibility that anyone will
88 disagree with the change.
90 A good mental test is "will the person who hates my work the most be
91 able to find fault with the change" - if so, then it's not obvious and
92 needs to be posted first. :-)
94 Something like changing or bypassing an interface is _not_ an obvious
95 fix, since such a change without discussion will result in
96 instantaneous and loud complaints.
99 GDB Steering Committee
100 ----------------------
102 The members of the GDB Steering Committee are the FSF-appointed
103 maintainers of the GDB project.
105 The Steering Committee has final authority for all GDB-related topics;
106 they may make whatever changes that they deem necessary, or that the FSF
107 requests. However, they are generally not involved in day-to-day
110 The current members of the steering committee are listed below, in
111 alphabetical order. Their affiliations are provided for reference only -
112 their membership on the Steering Committee is individual and not through
113 their affiliation, and they act on behalf of the GNU project.
115 Jim Blandy (CodeSourcery)
116 Andrew Cagney (Red Hat)
117 Robert Dewar (AdaCore, NYU)
119 Paul Hilfinger (UC Berkeley)
120 Dan Jacobowitz (CodeSourcery)
122 Richard Stallman (FSF)
123 Ian Lance Taylor (C2)
130 The global maintainers may review and commit any change to GDB, except in
131 areas with a Responsible Maintainer available. For major changes, or
132 changes to areas with other active developers, global maintainers are
133 strongly encouraged to post their own patches for feedback before
136 The global maintainers are responsible for reviewing patches to any area
137 for which no Responsible Maintainer is listed.
139 Global maintainers also have the authority to revert patches which should
140 not have been applied, e.g. patches which were not approved, controversial
141 patches committed under the Obvious Fix Rule, patches with important bugs
142 that can't be immediately fixed, or patches which go against an accepted and
143 documented roadmap for GDB development. Any global maintainer may request
144 the reversion of a patch. If no global maintainer, or responsible
145 maintainer in the affected areas, supports the patch (except for the
146 maintainer who originally committed it), then after 48 hours the maintainer
147 who called for the reversion may revert the patch.
149 No one may reapply a reverted patch without the agreement of the maintainer
150 who reverted it, or bringing the issue to the GDB Steering Committee for
153 At the moment there are no documented roadmaps for GDB development; in the
154 future, if there are, a reference to the list will be included here.
156 The current global maintainers are (in alphabetical order):
158 Jim Blandy jimb@codesourcery.com
159 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
160 Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
161 Fred Fish fnf@ninemoons.com
162 Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
163 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
164 Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com
165 Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
166 Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
167 Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
173 The current release manager is: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
175 His responsibilities are:
177 * organizing, scheduling, and managing releases of GDB.
179 * deciding the approval and commit policies for release branches,
180 and can change them as needed.
187 These volunteers track all patches submitted to the gdb-patches list. They
188 endeavor to prevent any posted patch from being overlooked; work with
189 contributors to meet GDB's coding style and general requirements, along with
190 FSF copyright assignments; remind (ping) responsible maintainers to review
191 patches; and ensure that contributors are given credit.
193 Current patch champions (in alphabetical order):
195 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
196 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
200 Responsible Maintainers
201 -----------------------
203 These developers have agreed to review patches in specific areas of GDB, in
204 which they have knowledge and experience. These areas are generally broad;
205 the role of a responsible maintainer is to provide coherent and cohesive
206 structure within their area of GDB, to assure that patches from many
207 different contributors all work together for the best results.
209 Global maintainers will defer to responsible maintainers within their areas,
210 as long as the responsible maintainer is active. Active means that
211 responsible maintainers agree to review submitted patches in their area
212 promptly; patches and followups should generally be answered within a week.
213 If a responsible maintainer is interested in reviewing a patch but will not
214 have time within a week of posting, the maintainer should send an
215 acknowledgement of the patch to the gdb-patches mailing list, and
216 plan to follow up with a review within a month. These deadlines are for
217 initial responses to a patch - if the maintainer has suggestions
218 or questions, it may take an extended discussion before the patch
219 is ready to commit. There are no written requirements for discussion,
220 but maintainers are asked to be responsive.
222 If a responsible maintainer misses these deadlines occasionally (e.g.
223 vacation or unexpected workload), it's not a disaster - any global
224 maintainer may step in to review the patch. But sometimes life intervenes
225 more permanently, and a maintainer may no longer have time for these duties.
226 When this happens, he or she should step down (either into the Authorized
227 Committers section if still interested in the area, or simply removed from
228 the list of Responsible Maintainers if not).
230 If a responsible maintainer is unresponsive for an extended period of time
231 without stepping down, please contact the Global Maintainers; they will try
232 to contact the maintainer directly and fix the problem - potentially by
233 removing that maintainer from their listed position.
235 If there are several maintainers for a given domain then any one of them
236 may review a submitted patch.
238 Target Instruction Set Architectures:
240 The *-tdep.c files. ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) and OS-ABI
241 (Operating System / Application Binary Interface) issues including CPU
244 The Target/Architecture maintainer works with the host maintainer when
245 resolving build issues. The Target/Architecture maintainer works with
246 the native maintainer when resolving ABI issues.
248 alpha --target=alpha-elf ,-Werror
250 arm --target=arm-elf ,-Werror
251 Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
253 avr --target=avr ,-Werror
255 cris --target=cris-elf ,-Werror
259 frv --target=frv-elf ,-Werror
261 h8300 --target=h8300-elf ,-Werror
263 i386 --target=i386-elf ,-Werror
264 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
266 ia64 --target=ia64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
267 (--target=ia64-elf broken)
269 m32c --target=m32c-elf ,-Werror
270 Jim Blandy, jimb@codesourcery.com
272 m32r --target=m32r-elf ,-Werror
274 m68hc11 --target=m68hc11-elf ,-Werror ,
275 Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
277 m68k --target=m68k-elf ,-Werror
279 m88k --target=m88k-openbsd ,-Werror
280 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
284 mips --target=mips-elf ,-Werror
286 mn10300 --target=mn10300-elf broken
287 (sim/ dies with make -j)
288 Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
290 ms1 --target=ms1-elf ,-Werror
291 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
295 pa --target=hppa-elf ,-Werror
297 powerpc --target=powerpc-eabi ,-Werror
299 s390 --target=s390-linux-gnu ,-Werror
301 sh --target=sh-elf ,-Werror
302 --target=sh64-elf ,-Werror
304 sparc --target=sparc-elf ,-Werror
306 v850 --target=v850-elf ,-Werror
308 vax --target=vax-netbsd ,-Werror
310 x86-64 --target=x86_64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
312 xstormy16 --target=xstormy16-elf
313 Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
315 All developers recognized by this file can make arbitrary changes to
318 The Bourne shell script gdb_mbuild.sh can be used to rebuild all the
324 The Native maintainer is responsible for target specific native
325 support - typically shared libraries and quirks to procfs/ptrace/...
326 The Native maintainer works with the Arch and Core maintainers when
327 resolving more generic problems.
329 The host maintainer ensures that gdb can be built as a cross debugger on
332 AIX Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
334 djgpp native Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
335 GNU Hurd Alfred M. Szmidt ams@gnu.org
336 MS Windows (NT, '00, 9x, Me, XP) host & native
337 Chris Faylor cgf@alum.bu.edu
338 GNU/Linux/x86 native & host
339 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
340 GNU/Linux MIPS native & host
341 Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
342 GNU/Linux m68k Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
343 FreeBSD native & host Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
347 Core: Generic components used by all of GDB
349 tracing Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
350 threads Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
351 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
353 C++ Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
354 Objective C support Adam Fedor fedor@gnu.org
355 shared libs Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
357 documentation Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
360 gdbtk (gdb.gdbtk) Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
361 threads (gdb.threads) Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
362 trace (gdb.trace) Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
365 UI: External (user) interfaces.
367 gdbtk (c & tcl) Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
368 Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
369 libgui (w/foundry, sn) Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
374 gdb/gdbserver Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
376 Makefile.in, configure* ALL
378 mmalloc/ ALL Host maintainers
380 sim/ See sim/MAINTAINERS
382 readline/ Master version: ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/
384 Host maintainers (host dependant parts)
385 (but get your changes into the master version)
390 Authorized Committers
391 ---------------------
393 These are developers working on particular areas of GDB, who are trusted to
394 commit their own (or other developers') patches in those areas without
395 further review from a Global Maintainer or Responsible Maintainer. They are
396 under no obligation to review posted patches - but, of course, are invited
399 PowerPC Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
400 CRIS Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
401 IA64 Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
402 MIPS Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
403 m32r Kei Sakamoto sakamoto.kei@renesas.com
404 PowerPC Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
405 CRIS Orjan Friberg orjanf@axis.com
406 HPPA Randolph Chung tausq@debian.org
407 S390 Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
408 djgpp DJ Delorie dj@delorie.com
409 [Please use this address to contact DJ about DJGPP]
410 tui Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
411 ia64 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
412 AIX Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
413 GNU/Linux PPC native Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
414 gdb.java tests Anthony Green green@redhat.com
415 FreeBSD native & host David O'Brien obrien@freebsd.org
416 event loop Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
417 generic symtabs Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
418 dwarf readers Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
419 elf reader Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
420 stabs reader Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
421 readline/ Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
422 NetBSD native & host Jason Thorpe thorpej@netbsd.org
423 Pascal support Pierre Muller muller@sources.redhat.com
424 avr Theodore A. Roth troth@openavr.org
425 Modula-2 support Gaius Mulley gaius@glam.ac.uk
431 To get recommended for the Write After Approval list you need a valid
432 FSF assignment and have submitted one good patch.
434 David Anderson davea@sgi.com
435 John David Anglin dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
436 Shrinivas Atre shrinivasa@kpitcummins.com
437 Scott Bambrough scottb@netwinder.org
438 Jan Beulich jbeulich@novell.com
439 Jim Blandy jimb@codesourcery.com
440 Philip Blundell philb@gnu.org
441 Per Bothner per@bothner.com
442 Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
443 Dave Brolley brolley@redhat.com
444 Paul Brook paul@codesourcery.com
445 Julian Brown julian@codesourcery.com
446 Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com
447 Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
448 David Carlton carlton@bactrian.org
449 Stephane Carrez stcarrez@nerim.fr
450 Michael Chastain mec.gnu@mindspring.com
451 Eric Christopher echristo@apple.com
452 Randolph Chung tausq@debian.org
453 Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
454 J.T. Conklin jtc@acorntoolworks.com
455 Brendan Conoboy blc@redhat.com
456 DJ Delorie dj@redhat.com
457 Philippe De Muyter phdm@macqel.be
458 Dhananjay Deshpande dhananjayd@kpitcummins.com
459 Klee Dienes kdienes@apple.com
460 Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
461 Steve Ellcey sje@cup.hp.com
462 Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
463 Ben Elliston bje@gnu.org
464 Adam Fedor fedor@gnu.org
465 Fred Fish fnf@ninemoons.com
466 Brian Ford ford@vss.fsi.com
467 Orjan Friberg orjanf@axis.com
468 Paul Gilliam pgilliam@us.ibm.com
469 Raoul Gough RaoulGough@yahoo.co.uk
470 Anthony Green green@redhat.com
471 Matthew Green mrg@eterna.com.au
472 Jerome Guitton guitton@act-europe.fr
473 Ben Harris bjh21@netbsd.org
474 Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
475 Aldy Hernandez aldyh@redhat.com
476 Paul Hilfinger hilfinger@gnat.com
477 Matt Hiller hiller@redhat.com
478 Kazu Hirata kazu@cs.umass.edu
479 Jeff Holcomb jeffh@redhat.com
480 Don Howard dhoward@redhat.com
481 Martin Hunt hunt@redhat.com
482 Jim Ingham jingham@apple.com
483 Baurzhan Ismagulov ibr@radix50.net
484 Manoj Iyer manjo@austin.ibm.com
485 Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
486 Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
487 Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
488 Geoff Keating geoffk@redhat.com
489 Mark Kettenis kettenis@gnu.org
490 Jim Kingdon kingdon@panix.com
491 Jonathan Larmour jlarmour@redhat.co.uk
492 Jeff Law law@redhat.com
493 David Lecomber david@streamline-computing.com
494 Robert Lipe rjl@sco.com
495 H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
496 Michal Ludvig mludvig@suse.cz
497 Glen McCready gkm@redhat.com
498 Greg McGary greg@mcgary.org
499 Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
500 Bryce McKinlay mckinlay@redhat.com
501 Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
502 David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
503 Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
504 Marko Mlinar markom@opencores.org
505 Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
506 Jason Molenda jmolenda@apple.com
507 Pierre Muller muller@sources.redhat.com
508 Gaius Mulley gaius@glam.ac.uk
509 Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
510 Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com
511 Nathanael Nerode neroden@gcc.gnu.org
512 Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
513 David O'Brien obrien@freebsd.org
514 Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
515 Ramana Radhakrishnan ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com
516 Frederic Riss frederic.riss@st.com
517 Tom Rix trix@redhat.com
518 Nick Roberts nickrob@snap.net.nz
519 Bob Rossi bob_rossi@cox.net
520 Theodore A. Roth troth@openavr.org
521 Ian Roxborough irox@redhat.com
522 Grace Sainsbury graces@redhat.com
523 Kei Sakamoto sakamoto.kei@renesas.com
524 Mark Salter msalter@redhat.com
525 Richard Sandiford richard@codesourcery.com
526 Peter Schauer Peter.Schauer@mytum.de
527 Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
528 Keith Seitz keiths@redhat.com
529 Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com
530 Aidan Skinner aidan@velvet.net
531 Jiri Smid smid@suse.cz
532 David Smith dsmith@redhat.com
533 Stephen P. Smith ischis2@cox.net
534 Jackie Smith Cashion jsmith@redhat.com
535 Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
536 Petr Sorfa petrs@caldera.com
537 Andrew Stubbs andrew.stubbs@st.com
538 Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
539 Gary Thomas gthomas@redhat.com
540 Jason Thorpe thorpej@netbsd.org
541 Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
542 David Ung davidu@mips.com
543 D Venkatasubramanian dvenkat@noida.hcltech.com
544 Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
545 Keith Walker keith.walker@arm.com
546 Kris Warkentin kewarken@qnx.com
547 Ulrich Weigand uweigand@de.ibm.com
548 Nathan Williams nathanw@wasabisystems.com
549 Bob Wilson bob.wilson@acm.org
550 Jim Wilson wilson@specifixinc.com
551 Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com
552 Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
553 Wu Zhou woodzltc@cn.ibm.com
554 Yoshinori Sato ysato@users.sourceforge.jp
559 Whenever removing yourself, or someone else, from this file, consider
560 listing their areas of development here for posterity.
562 Jimmy Guo (gdb.hp, tui) guo at cup dot hp dot com
563 Jeff Law (hppa) law at cygnus dot com
564 Daniel Berlin (C++ support) dan at cgsoftware dot com
565 Nick Duffek (powerpc, SCO, Sol/x86) nick at duffek dot com
566 David Taylor (d10v, sparc, utils, defs,
567 expression evaluator, language support) taylor at candd dot org
568 J.T. Conklin (dcache, NetBSD, remote, global) jtc at acorntoolworks dot com
569 Frank Ch. Eigler (sim) fche at redhat dot com
570 Per Bothner (Java) per at bothner dot com
571 Anthony Green (Java) green at redhat dot com
572 Fernando Nasser (testsuite/, mi, cli, KOD) fnasser at redhat dot com
573 Mark Salter (testsuite/lib+config) msalter at redhat dot com
574 Jim Kingdon (web pages) kingdon at panix dot com
575 Jim Ingham (gdbtk, libgui) jingham at apple dot com
576 Mark Kettenis (hurd native) kettenis at gnu dot org
577 Ian Roxborough (in-tree tcl, tk, itcl) irox at redhat dot com
578 Robert Lipe (SCO/Unixware) rjl at sco dot com
579 Peter Schauer (global, AIX, xcoffsolib,
580 Solaris/x86) Peter.Schauer at mytum dot de
581 Scott Bambrough (ARM) scottb at netwinder dot org
582 Philippe De Muyter (coff) phdm at macqel dot be
583 Michael Chastain (testsuite) mec.gnu at mindspring dot com
587 Folks that have been caught up in a paper trail:
589 David Carlton carlton@bactrian.org