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                GDB Maintainers
                ===============


                   Overview
                   --------

This file describes different groups of people who are, together, the
maintainers and developers of the GDB project.  Don't worry - it sounds
more complicated than it really is.

There are four groups of GDB developers, covering the patch development and
review process:

  - The Global Maintainers.

    These are the developers in charge of most daily development.  They
    have wide authority to apply and reject patches, but defer to the
    Responsible Maintainers (see below) within their spheres of
    responsibility.

  - The Responsible Maintainers.

    These are developers who have expertise and interest in a particular
    area of GDB, who are generally available to review patches, and who
    prefer to enforce a single vision within their areas.

  - The Authorized Committers.

    These are developers who are trusted to make changes within a specific
    area of GDB without additional oversight.

  - The Write After Approval Maintainers.

    These are developers who have write access to the GDB source tree.  They
    can check in their own changes once a developer with the appropriate
    authority has approved the changes; they can also apply the Obvious
    Fix Rule (below).

All maintainers are encouraged to post major patches to the gdb-patches
mailing list for comments, even if they have the authority to commit the
patch without review from another maintainer.  This especially includes
patches which change internal interfaces (e.g. global functions, data
structures) or external interfaces (e.g. user, remote, MI, et cetera).

The term "review" is used in this file to describe several kinds of feedback
from a maintainer: approval, rejection, and requests for changes or
clarification with the intention of approving a revised version.  Review is
a privilege and/or responsibility of various positions among the GDB
Maintainers.  Of course, anyone - whether they hold a position but not the
relevant one for a particular patch, or are just following along on the
mailing lists for fun, or anything in between - may suggest changes or
ask questions about a patch!

There's also a couple of other people who play special roles in the GDB
community, separately from the patch process:

  - The GDB Steering Committee.

    These are the official (FSF-appointed) maintainers of GDB.  They have
    final and overriding authority for all GDB-related decisions, including
    anything described in this file.  The committee is not generally
    involved in day-to-day development (although its members may be, as
    individuals).

  - The Release Manager.

    This developer is in charge of making new releases of GDB.

  - The Patch Champions.

    These volunteers make sure that no contribution is overlooked or
    forgotten.

Most changes to the list of maintainers in this file are handled by
consensus among the global maintainers and any other involved parties.
In cases where consensus can not be reached, the global maintainers may
ask the Steering Committee for a final decision.


                        The Obvious Fix Rule
                        --------------------

All maintainers listed in this file, including the Write After Approval
developers, are allowed to check in obvious fixes.

An "obvious fix" means that there is no possibility that anyone will
disagree with the change.

A good mental test is "will the person who hates my work the most be
able to find fault with the change" - if so, then it's not obvious and
needs to be posted first. :-)

Something like changing or bypassing an interface is _not_ an obvious
fix, since such a change without discussion will result in
instantaneous and loud complaints.

For documentation changes, about the only kind of fix that is obvious
is correction of a typo or bad English usage.


             GDB Steering Committee
             ----------------------

The members of the GDB Steering Committee are the FSF-appointed
maintainers of the GDB project.

The Steering Committee has final authority for all GDB-related topics;
they may make whatever changes that they deem necessary, or that the FSF
requests.  However, they are generally not involved in day-to-day
development.

The current members of the steering committee are listed below, in
alphabetical order.  Their affiliations are provided for reference only -
their membership on the Steering Committee is individual and not through
their affiliation, and they act on behalf of the GNU project.

        Jim Blandy (Mozilla)
        Andrew Cagney (Red Hat)
        Robert Dewar (AdaCore, NYU)
        Klee Dienes (Apple)
        Paul Hilfinger (UC Berkeley)
        Dan Jacobowitz (CodeSourcery)
        Stan Shebs (Mozilla)
        Richard Stallman (FSF)
        Ian Lance Taylor (C2)
        Todd Whitesel


                  Global Maintainers
                  ------------------

The global maintainers may review and commit any change to GDB, except in
areas with a Responsible Maintainer available.  For major changes, or
changes to areas with other active developers, global maintainers are
strongly encouraged to post their own patches for feedback before
committing.

The global maintainers are responsible for reviewing patches to any area
for which no Responsible Maintainer is listed.

Global maintainers also have the authority to revert patches which should
not have been applied, e.g. patches which were not approved, controversial
patches committed under the Obvious Fix Rule, patches with important bugs
that can't be immediately fixed, or patches which go against an accepted and
documented roadmap for GDB development.  Any global maintainer may request
the reversion of a patch.  If no global maintainer, or responsible
maintainer in the affected areas, supports the patch (except for the
maintainer who originally committed it), then after 48 hours the maintainer
who called for the reversion may revert the patch.

No one may reapply a reverted patch without the agreement of the maintainer
who reverted it, or bringing the issue to the GDB Steering Committee for
discussion.

At the moment there are no documented roadmaps for GDB development; in the
future, if there are, a reference to the list will be included here.

The current global maintainers are (in alphabetical order):

Jim Blandy                      jimb@mozilla.com
Joel Brobecker                  brobecker@adacore.com
Kevin Buettner                  kevinb@redhat.com
Andrew Cagney                   cagney@gnu.org
Daniel Jacobowitz               dan@debian.org
Mark Kettenis                   kettenis@gnu.org
Stan Shebs                      shebs@mozilla.com
Michael Snyder                  msnyder@specifix.com
Ulrich Weigand                  Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com
Elena Zannoni                   ezannoni@redhat.com
Eli Zaretskii                   eliz@gnu.org


                        Release Manager
                        ---------------

The current release manager is: Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>

His responsibilities are:

    * organizing, scheduling, and managing releases of GDB.

    * deciding the approval and commit policies for release branches,
      and can change them as needed.



                        Patch Champions
                        ---------------

These volunteers track all patches submitted to the gdb-patches list.  They
endeavor to prevent any posted patch from being overlooked; work with
contributors to meet GDB's coding style and general requirements, along with
FSF copyright assignments; remind (ping) responsible maintainers to review
patches; and ensure that contributors are given credit.

Current patch champions (in alphabetical order):

        Randolph Chung     <tausq@debian.org>



                        Responsible Maintainers
                        -----------------------

These developers have agreed to review patches in specific areas of GDB, in
which they have knowledge and experience.  These areas are generally broad;
the role of a responsible maintainer is to provide coherent and cohesive
structure within their area of GDB, to assure that patches from many
different contributors all work together for the best results.

Global maintainers will defer to responsible maintainers within their areas,
as long as the responsible maintainer is active.  Active means that
responsible maintainers agree to review submitted patches in their area
promptly; patches and followups should generally be answered within a week.
If a responsible maintainer is interested in reviewing a patch but will not
have time within a week of posting, the maintainer should send an
acknowledgement of the patch to the gdb-patches mailing list, and
plan to follow up with a review within a month.  These deadlines are for
initial responses to a patch - if the maintainer has suggestions
or questions, it may take an extended discussion before the patch
is ready to commit.  There are no written requirements for discussion,
but maintainers are asked to be responsive.

If a responsible maintainer misses these deadlines occasionally (e.g.
vacation or unexpected workload), it's not a disaster - any global
maintainer may step in to review the patch.  But sometimes life intervenes
more permanently, and a maintainer may no longer have time for these duties.
When this happens, he or she should step down (either into the Authorized
Committers section if still interested in the area, or simply removed from
the list of Responsible Maintainers if not).

If a responsible maintainer is unresponsive for an extended period of time
without stepping down, please contact the Global Maintainers; they will try
to contact the maintainer directly and fix the problem - potentially by
removing that maintainer from their listed position.

If there are several maintainers for a given domain then any one of them
may review a submitted patch.

Target Instruction Set Architectures:

The *-tdep.c files.  ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) and OS-ABI
(Operating System / Application Binary Interface) issues including CPU
variants.

The Target/Architecture maintainer works with the host maintainer when
resolving build issues.  The Target/Architecture maintainer works with
the native maintainer when resolving ABI issues.

        alpha           --target=alpha-elf ,-Werror

        arm             --target=arm-elf ,-Werror
                        Richard Earnshaw        rearnsha@arm.com

        avr             --target=avr ,-Werror

        cris            --target=cris-elf ,-Werror ,
                        (sim does not build with -Werror)

        frv             --target=frv-elf ,-Werror

        h8300           --target=h8300-elf ,-Werror

        i386            --target=i386-elf ,-Werror
                        Mark Kettenis           kettenis@gnu.org

        ia64            --target=ia64-linux-gnu ,-Werror
                        (--target=ia64-elf broken)

        m32c            --target=m32c-elf ,-Werror
                        Jim Blandy, jimb@codesourcery.com

        m32r            --target=m32r-elf ,-Werror

        m68hc11         --target=m68hc11-elf ,-Werror ,
                        Stephane Carrez         stcarrez@nerim.fr

        m68k            --target=m68k-elf ,-Werror

        m88k            --target=m88k-openbsd ,-Werror
                        Mark Kettenis           kettenis@gnu.org

        mcore           Deleted

        mep             --target=mep-elf ,-Werror
                        Kevin Buettner          kevinb@redhat.com

        mips            --target=mips-elf ,-Werror

        mn10300         --target=mn10300-elf broken
                        (sim/ dies with make -j)
                        Michael Snyder          msnyder@specifix.com

        ms1             --target=ms1-elf ,-Werror
                        Kevin Buettner          kevinb@redhat.com

        ns32k           Deleted

        pa              --target=hppa-elf ,-Werror

        powerpc         --target=powerpc-eabi ,-Werror

        s390            --target=s390-linux-gnu ,-Werror

        score   --target=score-elf
                        Qinwei          qinwei@sunnorth.com.cn

        sh              --target=sh-elf ,-Werror
                        --target=sh64-elf ,-Werror

        sparc           --target=sparc64-solaris2.10 ,-Werror
                        (--target=sparc-elf broken)

        spu             --target=spu-elf ,-Werror
                        Ulrich Weigand          uweigand@de.ibm.com

        v850            --target=v850-elf ,-Werror

        vax             --target=vax-netbsd ,-Werror

        x86-64          --target=x86_64-linux-gnu ,-Werror

        xstormy16       --target=xstormy16-elf
                        Corinna Vinschen        vinschen@redhat.com

        xtensa          --target=xtensa-elf
                        Maxim Grigoriev         maxim2405@gmail.com

All developers recognized by this file can make arbitrary changes to
OBSOLETE targets.

The Bourne shell script gdb_mbuild.sh can be used to rebuild all the
above targets.


Host/Native:

The Native maintainer is responsible for target specific native
support - typically shared libraries and quirks to procfs/ptrace/...
The Native maintainer works with the Arch and Core maintainers when
resolving more generic problems.

The host maintainer ensures that gdb can be built as a cross debugger on
their platform.

AIX                     Joel Brobecker          brobecker@adacore.com

djgpp native            Eli Zaretskii           eliz@gnu.org
GNU Hurd                Alfred M. Szmidt        ams@gnu.org
MS Windows (NT, '00, 9x, Me, XP) host & native
                        Chris Faylor            cgf@alum.bu.edu
GNU/Linux/x86 native & host
                        Mark Kettenis           kettenis@gnu.org
GNU/Linux MIPS native & host
                        Daniel Jacobowitz       dan@debian.org
GNU/Linux m68k          Andreas Schwab          schwab@suse.de
FreeBSD native & host   Mark Kettenis           kettenis@gnu.org



Core: Generic components used by all of GDB

tracing                 Michael Snyder          msnyder@specifix.com
threads                 Michael Snyder          msnyder@specifix.com
                        Mark Kettenis           kettenis@gnu.org
language support
  Ada                   Joel Brobecker          brobecker@adacore.com
                        Paul Hilfinger          hilfinger@gnat.com
  C++                   Daniel Jacobowitz       dan@debian.org
  Objective C support   Adam Fedor              fedor@gnu.org
shared libs             Kevin Buettner          kevinb@redhat.com
MI interface            Vladimir Prus           vladimir@codesourcery.com

documentation           Eli Zaretskii           eliz@gnu.org
  (including NEWS)
testsuite
  gdbtk (gdb.gdbtk)     Keith Seitz             keiths@redhat.com
  threads (gdb.threads) Michael Snyder          msnyder@specifix.com
  trace (gdb.trace)     Michael Snyder          msnyder@specifix.com


UI: External (user) interfaces.

gdbtk (c & tcl)         Fernando Nasser         fnasser@redhat.com
                        Keith Seitz             keiths@redhat.com
libgui (w/foundry, sn)  Keith Seitz             keiths@redhat.com


Misc:

gdb/gdbserver           Daniel Jacobowitz       dan@debian.org

Makefile.in, configure* ALL

mmalloc/                ALL Host maintainers

sim/                    See sim/MAINTAINERS

readline/               Master version: ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/
                        ALL
                        Host maintainers (host dependant parts)
                        (but get your changes into the master version)

tcl/ tk/ itcl/          ALL


                Authorized Committers
                ---------------------

These are developers working on particular areas of GDB, who are trusted to
commit their own (or other developers') patches in those areas without
further review from a Global Maintainer or Responsible Maintainer.  They are
under no obligation to review posted patches - but, of course, are invited
to do so!

PowerPC                 Andrew Cagney           cagney@gnu.org
CRIS                    Hans-Peter Nilsson      hp@bitrange.com
IA64                    Jeff Johnston           jjohnstn@redhat.com
MIPS                    Joel Brobecker          brobecker@adacore.com
m32r                    Kei Sakamoto            sakamoto.kei@renesas.com
PowerPC                 Kevin Buettner          kevinb@redhat.com
CRIS                    Orjan Friberg           orjanf@axis.com
HPPA                    Randolph Chung          tausq@debian.org
S390                    Ulrich Weigand          uweigand@de.ibm.com
djgpp                   DJ Delorie              dj@delorie.com
                        [Please use this address to contact DJ about DJGPP]
tui                     Stephane Carrez         stcarrez@nerim.fr
ia64                    Kevin Buettner          kevinb@redhat.com
AIX                     Kevin Buettner          kevinb@redhat.com
GNU/Linux PPC native    Kevin Buettner          kevinb@redhat.com
gdb.java tests          Anthony Green           green@redhat.com
FreeBSD native & host   David O'Brien           obrien@freebsd.org
event loop              Elena Zannoni           ezannoni@redhat.com
generic symtabs         Elena Zannoni           ezannoni@redhat.com
dwarf readers           Elena Zannoni           ezannoni@redhat.com
elf reader              Elena Zannoni           ezannoni@redhat.com
stabs reader            Elena Zannoni           ezannoni@redhat.com
readline/               Elena Zannoni           ezannoni@redhat.com
NetBSD native & host    Jason Thorpe            thorpej@netbsd.org
Pascal support          Pierre Muller           muller@sources.redhat.com
avr                     Theodore A. Roth        troth@openavr.org
Modula-2 support        Gaius Mulley            gaius@glam.ac.uk


                        Write After Approval
                           (alphabetic)

To get recommended for the Write After Approval list you need a valid
FSF assignment and have submitted one good patch.

Pedro Alves                                     pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt
David Anderson                                  davea@sgi.com
John David Anglin                               dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Shrinivas Atre                                  shrinivasa@kpitcummins.com
Scott Bambrough                                 scottb@netwinder.org
Thiago Jung Bauermann                           bauerman@br.ibm.com
Jan Beulich                                     jbeulich@novell.com
Jim Blandy                                      jimb@codesourcery.com
Philip Blundell                                 philb@gnu.org
Per Bothner                                     per@bothner.com
Joel Brobecker                                  brobecker@adacore.com
Dave Brolley                                    brolley@redhat.com
Paul Brook                                      paul@codesourcery.com
Julian Brown                                    julian@codesourcery.com
Kevin Buettner                                  kevinb@redhat.com
Andrew Cagney                                   cagney@gnu.org
David Carlton                                   carlton@bactrian.org
Stephane Carrez                                 stcarrez@nerim.fr
Michael Chastain                                mec.gnu@mindspring.com
Eric Christopher                                echristo@apple.com
Randolph Chung                                  tausq@debian.org
Nick Clifton                                    nickc@redhat.com
J.T. Conklin                                    jtc@acorntoolworks.com
Brendan Conoboy                                 blc@redhat.com
Ludovic Courtès                                 ludo@gnu.org
DJ Delorie                                      dj@redhat.com
Philippe De Muyter                              phdm@macqel.be
Dhananjay Deshpande                             dhananjayd@kpitcummins.com
Markus Deuling                                  deuling@de.ibm.com
Klee Dienes                                     kdienes@apple.com
Gabriel Dos Reis                                gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Richard Earnshaw                                rearnsha@arm.com
Steve Ellcey                                    sje@cup.hp.com
Frank Ch. Eigler                                fche@redhat.com
Ben Elliston                                    bje@gnu.org
Doug Evans                                      dje@google.com
Adam Fedor                                      fedor@gnu.org
Brian Ford                                      ford@vss.fsi.com
Orjan Friberg                                   orjanf@axis.com
Nathan Froyd                                    froydnj@codesourcery.com
Gary Funck                                      gary@intrepid.com
Paul Gilliam                                    pgilliam@us.ibm.com
Raoul Gough                                     RaoulGough@yahoo.co.uk
Anthony Green                                   green@redhat.com
Matthew Green                                   mrg@eterna.com.au
Maxim Grigoriev                                 maxim2405@gmail.com
Jerome Guitton                                  guitton@act-europe.fr
Ben Harris                                      bjh21@netbsd.org
Richard Henderson                               rth@redhat.com
Aldy Hernandez                                  aldyh@redhat.com
Paul Hilfinger                                  hilfinger@gnat.com
Matt Hiller                                     hiller@redhat.com
Kazu Hirata                                     kazu@cs.umass.edu
Jeff Holcomb                                    jeffh@redhat.com
Don Howard                                      dhoward@redhat.com
Nick Hudson                                     nick.hudson@dsl.pipex.com
Martin Hunt                                     hunt@redhat.com
Jim Ingham                                      jingham@apple.com
Baurzhan Ismagulov                              ibr@radix50.net
Manoj Iyer                                      manjo@austin.ibm.com
Daniel Jacobowitz                               dan@debian.org
Andreas Jaeger                                  aj@suse.de
Jeff Johnston                                   jjohnstn@redhat.com
Geoff Keating                                   geoffk@redhat.com
Mark Kettenis                                   kettenis@gnu.org
Jim Kingdon                                     kingdon@panix.com
Jan Kratochvil                                  jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Jonathan Larmour                                jlarmour@redhat.co.uk
Jeff Law                                        law@redhat.com
David Lecomber                                  david@streamline-computing.com
Robert Lipe                                     rjl@sco.com
H.J. Lu                                         hjl.tools@gmail.com
Michal Ludvig                                   mludvig@suse.cz
Luis Machado                                    luisgpm@br.ibm.com
Glen McCready                                   gkm@redhat.com
Greg McGary                                     greg@mcgary.org
Roland McGrath                                  roland@redhat.com
Bryce McKinlay                                  mckinlay@redhat.com
Jason Merrill                                   jason@redhat.com
David S. Miller                                 davem@redhat.com
Mark Mitchell                                   mark@codesourcery.com
Marko Mlinar                                    markom@opencores.org
Alan Modra                                      amodra@bigpond.net.au
Jason Molenda                                   jmolenda@apple.com
Pierre Muller                                   muller@sources.redhat.com
Gaius Mulley                                    gaius@glam.ac.uk
Joseph Myers                                    joseph@codesourcery.com
Fernando Nasser                                 fnasser@redhat.com
Adam Nemet                                      anemet@caviumnetworks.com
Nathanael Nerode                                neroden@gcc.gnu.org
Hans-Peter Nilsson                              hp@bitrange.com
David O'Brien                                   obrien@freebsd.org
Alexandre Oliva                                 aoliva@redhat.com
Denis Pilat                                     denis.pilat@st.com
Vladimir Prus                                   vladimir@codesourcery.com
Qinwei                                          qinwei@sunnorth.com.cn
Ramana Radhakrishnan                            ramana.radhakrishnan@codito.com
Frederic Riss                                   frederic.riss@st.com
Tom Rix                                         trix@redhat.com
Nick Roberts                                    nickrob@snap.net.nz
Bob Rossi                                       bob_rossi@cox.net
Theodore A. Roth                                troth@openavr.org
Ian Roxborough                                  irox@redhat.com
Maciej W. Rozycki                               macro@linux-mips.org
Grace Sainsbury                                 graces@redhat.com
Kei Sakamoto                                    sakamoto.kei@renesas.com
Mark Salter                                     msalter@redhat.com
Richard Sandiford                               richard@codesourcery.com
Peter Schauer                                   Peter.Schauer@mytum.de
Andreas Schwab                                  schwab@suse.de
Keith Seitz                                     keiths@redhat.com
Carlos Eduardo Seo                              cseo@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Stan Shebs                                      shebs@mozilla.com
Mark Shinwell                                   shinwell@codesourcery.com
Aidan Skinner                                   aidan@velvet.net
Jiri Smid                                       smid@suse.cz
David Smith                                     dsmith@redhat.com
Stephen P. Smith                                ischis2@cox.net
Jackie Smith Cashion                            jsmith@redhat.com
Michael Snyder                                  msnyder@specifix.com
Petr Sorfa                                      petrs@caldera.com
Andrew Stubbs                                   andrew.stubbs@st.com
Ian Lance Taylor                                ian@airs.com
Gary Thomas                                     gthomas@redhat.com
Jason Thorpe                                    thorpej@netbsd.org
Caroline Tice                                   ctice@apple.com
Tom Tromey                                      tromey@redhat.com
David Ung                                       davidu@mips.com
D Venkatasubramanian                            dvenkat@noida.hcltech.com
Corinna Vinschen                                vinschen@redhat.com
Keith Walker                                    keith.walker@arm.com
Kris Warkentin                                  kewarken@qnx.com
Ulrich Weigand                                  uweigand@de.ibm.com
Nathan Williams                                 nathanw@wasabisystems.com
Bob Wilson                                      bob.wilson@acm.org
Jim Wilson                                      wilson@specifix.com
Elena Zannoni                                   ezannoni@redhat.com
Eli Zaretskii                                   eliz@gnu.org
Wu Zhou                                         woodzltc@cn.ibm.com
Yoshinori Sato                                  ysato@users.sourceforge.jp


                        Past Maintainers

Whenever removing yourself, or someone else, from this file, consider
listing their areas of development here for posterity.

Jimmy Guo (gdb.hp, tui)                         guo at cup dot hp dot com
Jeff Law (hppa)                                 law at cygnus dot com
Daniel Berlin (C++ support)                     dan at cgsoftware dot com
Nick Duffek (powerpc, SCO, Sol/x86)             nick at duffek dot com
David Taylor (d10v, sparc, utils, defs,
  expression evaluator, language support)       taylor at candd dot org
J.T. Conklin (dcache, NetBSD, remote, global)   jtc at acorntoolworks dot com
Frank Ch. Eigler (sim)                          fche at redhat dot com
Per Bothner (Java)                              per at bothner dot com
Anthony Green (Java)                            green at redhat dot com
Fernando Nasser (testsuite/, mi, cli, KOD)      fnasser at redhat dot com
Mark Salter (testsuite/lib+config)              msalter at redhat dot com
Jim Kingdon (web pages)                         kingdon at panix dot com
Jim Ingham (gdbtk, libgui)                      jingham at apple dot com
Mark Kettenis (hurd native)                     kettenis at gnu dot org
Ian Roxborough (in-tree tcl, tk, itcl)          irox at redhat dot com
Robert Lipe (SCO/Unixware)                      rjl at sco dot com
Peter Schauer (global, AIX, xcoffsolib,
  Solaris/x86)                                  Peter.Schauer at mytum dot de
Scott Bambrough (ARM)                           scottb at netwinder dot org
Philippe De Muyter (coff)                       phdm at macqel dot be
Michael Chastain (testsuite)                    mec.gnu at mindspring dot com
Fred Fish (global)



Folks that have been caught up in a paper trail:

David Carlton                                   carlton@bactrian.org

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