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 bug-binutils@gnu.org or binutils@sources.redhat.com
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-if, config-ml.in)
26 should 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@sources.redhat.com).
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 Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>
38 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
39 Jim Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com>
40 DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
41 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
42 Michael Meissner <gnu@the-meissners.org>
44 --------- Maintainers ---------
46 Maintainers are individuals who are responsible for, and have
47 permission to check in changes in, certain subsets of the code. Note
48 that maintainers still need approval to check in changes outside of
49 the immediate domain that they maintain.
51 If there is no maintainer for a given domain then the responsibility
52 falls to the head maintainer (above). If there are several
53 maintainers for a given domain then responsibility falls to the first
54 maintainer. The first maintainer is free to devolve that
55 responsibility among the other maintainers.
57 ALPHA Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
58 ARM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
59 ARM Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
60 AVR Denis Chertykov <denisc@overta.ru>
61 AVR Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@amelek.gda.pl>
62 BUILD SYSTEM Ben Elliston <bje@wasabisystems.com>
63 BUILD SYSTEM Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
64 CRIS Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
65 DWARF2 Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
66 FR30 Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
67 FRV Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
68 HPPA Dave Anglin <dave.anglin@nrc.ca>
69 HPPA elf32 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
70 HPPA elf64 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> [Basic maintainance only]
71 IA-64 Jim Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com>
72 IQ2000 Stan Cox <scox@redhat.com>
73 i860 Jason Eckhardt <jle@rice.edu>
74 ix86 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
75 ix86 PE Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
76 ix86 COFF DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
77 ix86 H.J.Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
78 ix86 INTEL MODE Diego Novillo <dnovillo@redhat.com>
79 M68HC11 M68HC12 Stephane Carrez <stcarrez@nerim.fr>
80 M68k Ben Elliston <bje@wasabisystems.com>
81 MIPS Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
82 MIPS Thiemo Seufer <seufer@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
83 MMIX Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
84 MN10300 Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
85 MN10300 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
86 PPC Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
87 PPC vector ext Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
88 s390, s390x Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
89 SH Jörn Rennecke <joern.rennecke@superh.com>
90 SH Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
91 SH Kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
92 SPARC Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
93 TESTSUITES Ben Elliston <bje@wasabisystems.com>
94 TIC4X Svein Seldal <svein.seldal@solidas.com>
95 TIC54X Timothy Wall <twall@alum.mit.edu>
96 VAX Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
97 x86_64 Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
98 x86_64 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
99 Xtensa Bob Wilson <bob.wilson@acm.org>
100 z8k Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>
103 --------- CGEN Maintainers -------------
105 CGEN is a tool for building, amongst other things, assemblers,
106 disassemblers and simulators from a single description of a CPU.
107 It creates files in several of the binutils directories, but it
108 is mentioned here since there is a single group that maintains
109 CGEN and the files that it creates.
111 If you have CGEN related problems you can send email to;
113 cgen@sources.redhat.com
115 The current CGEN maintainers are:
117 Doug Evans, Ben Elliston, Frank Eigler
119 --------- Write After Approval ---------
121 Individuals with "write after approval" have the ability to check in
122 changes, but they must get approval for each change from someone in
123 one of the above lists (blanket write or maintainers).
125 [It's a huge list, folks. You know who you are. If you have the
126 *ability* to do binutils checkins, you're in this group. Just
127 remember to get approval before checking anything in.]
129 ------------- Obvious Fixes -------------
131 Fixes for obvious mistakes do not need approval, and can be checked in
132 right away, but the patch should still be sent to the binutils list.
133 The definition of obvious is a bit hazy, and if you are not sure, then
134 you should seek approval first. Obvious fixes include fixes for
135 spelling mistakes, blatantly incorrect code (where the correct code is
136 also blatantly obvious), and so on. Obvious fixes should always be
137 small, the larger they are, the more likely it is that they contain
138 some un-obvious side effect or consequence.
140 --------- Branch Checkins ---------
142 If a patch is approved for check in to the mainline sources, it can
143 also be checked into the current release branch. Normally however
144 only bug fixes should be applied to the branch. New features, new
145 ports, etc, should be restricted to the mainline. (Otherwise the
146 burden of maintaining the branch in sync with the mainline becomes too
147 great). If you are uncertain as to whether a patch is appropriate for
148 the branch, ask the branch maintainer. This is:
150 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
152 -------- Testsuites ---------------
154 In general patches to any of the binutils testsuites should be
155 considered generic and sent to the binutils mailing list for
156 approval. Patches to target specific tests are the responsibility the
157 relevent port maintainer(s), and can be approved/checked in by them.
158 Other testsuite patches need the approval of a blanket-write-priveleges
161 -------- Configure patches ----------
163 Patches to the top level configure files (config.sub & config.guess)
164 are not the domain of the binutils project and they cannot be approved
165 by the binutils group. Instead they should be submitted to the config
168 config-patches@gnu.org