========= Binutils Maintainers =========
This is the list of individuals responsible for maintenance and update
-of the "binutils" module, which includes the bfd, binutils, include,
-gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes subdirectories. The home page for binutils
-is http://sourceware.cygnus.com/binutils/ and patches should be sent to
-binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com with "[patch]" as part of the subject.
+of the GNU Binary Utilities project. This includes the linker (ld),
+the assembler (gas), the profiler (gprof), a whole suite of other
+programs (binutils) and the libraries that they use (bfd and
+opcodes). This project shares a common set of header files with the
+GCC and GDB projects (include), so maintainership of those files is
+shared amoungst the projects.
+
+The home page for binutils is:
+
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/binutils.html
+
+and patches should be sent to:
+
+ bug-binutils@gnu.org
+
+with "[Patch]" as part of the subject line. Note - patches to the
+top level configure.in and config.sub scripts should be sent to:
+
+ config-patches@gnu.org
+
+and not to the binutils list.
--------- Blanket Write Privs ---------
-Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> (head maintainer)
-Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
-Ian Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
-Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
-Jim Wilson <wilson@redhat.com>
-DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
-Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>
-Michael Meissner <meissner@redhat.com>
+The following people have permission to check patches into the
+repository without obtaining approval first:
+
+ Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> (head maintainer)
+ Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
+ Ian Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
+ Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
+ Jim Wilson <wilson@redhat.com>
+ DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
+ Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
+ Michael Meissner <meissner@redhat.com>
- --------- Maintainers ---------
+ --------- Maintainers ---------
-Maintainers are individuals who are responsible for, and have permission
-to check in changes in, certain subsets of the code. Note that
-maintainers still need approval to check in changes outside of the
-immediate domain that they maintain.
+Maintainers are individuals who are responsible for, and have
+permission to check in changes in, certain subsets of the code. Note
+that maintainers still need approval to check in changes outside of
+the immediate domain that they maintain.
If there is no maintainer for a given domain then the responsibility
-falls to the head maintainer (above). 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.
+falls to the head maintainer (above). 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.
+
+ ARC Peter Targett <peter.targett@arccores.com>
+ ARM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+ AVR Denis Chertykov <denisc@overta.ru>
+ CRIS Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
+ DWARF2 Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
+ HPPA elf32 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
+ IA64 Jim Wilson <wilson@redhat.com>
+ x86_64 Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
+ x86_64 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
+ i860 Jason Eckhardt <jle@redhat.com>
+ ix86 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
+ ix86 COFF,PE DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
+ ix86 H.J.Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
+ ix86 INTEL MODE Diego Novillo <dnovillo@redhat.com>
+ M68HC11 M68HC12 Stephane Carrez <Stephane.Carrez@worldnet.fr>
+ MN10300 Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
+ MIPS Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
+ M88k Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com>
+ MMIX Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
+ PPC Geoff Keating <geoffk@redhat.com>
+ PPC XCOFF Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
+ s390, s390x Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
+ SH J
\81örn Rennecke <amylaar@onetel.net.uk>
+ SH Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
+ SPARC Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
+ TIC54X Timothy Wall <twall@alum.mit.edu>
+ z8k Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
+
+ --------- CGEN Maintainers -------------
-ARM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
-AVR Denis Chertykov <denisc@overta.ru>
-HPPA elf32 Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>
-ix86 Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>
-ix86 COFF,PE DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
-ix86 H.J.Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
-MIPS Ulf Carlsson <ulfc@calypso.engr.sgi.com>
-PPC Geoff Keating <geoffk@redhat.com>
-SPARC Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
+CGEN is a tool for building, amongst other things, assemblers,
+disassemblers and simulators from a single description of a CPU.
+It creates files in several of the binutils directories, but it
+is mentioned here since there is a single group that maintains
+CGEN and the files that it creates.
+If you have CGEN related problems you can send email to;
- --------- Write After Approval ---------
+ cgen@sources.redhat.com
+
+The current CGEN maintainers are:
+
+ Doug Evans, Ben Elliston, Frank Eigler
+
+ --------- Write After Approval ---------
Individuals with "write after approval" have the ability to check in
changes, but they must get approval for each change from someone in
one of the above lists (blanket write or maintainers).
[It's a huge list, folks. You know who you are. If you have the
- *ability* to do binutils checkins, you're in this group. Just remember
- to get approval before checking anything in.]
+ *ability* to do binutils checkins, you're in this group. Just
+ remember to get approval before checking anything in.]
+
+ ------------- Obvious Fixes -------------
+
+Fixes for obvious mistakes do not need approval, and can be checked in
+right away, but the patch should still be sent to the binutils list.
+The definition of obvious is a bit hazy, and if you are not sure, then
+you should seek approval first. Obvious fixes include fixes for
+spelling mistakes, blatantly incorrect code (where the correct code is
+also blatantly obvious), and so on. Obvious fixes should always be
+small, the larger they are, the more likely it is that they contain
+some un-obvious side effect or consequence.
+
+ --------- Branch Checkins ---------
+
+If a patch is approved for check in to the mainline sources, it can
+also be checked into the current release branch. Normally however
+only bug fixes should be applied to the branch. New features, new
+ports, etc, should be restricted to the mainline. (Otherwise the
+burden of maintaining the branch in sync with the mainline becomes too
+great). If you are uncertain as to whether a patch is appropriate for
+the branch, ask the branch maintainer. This is:
+
+ Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
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