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-ml.in) should
26 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 Lance Taylor <ian@airs.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>
43 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
45 --------- Maintainers ---------
47 Maintainers are individuals who are responsible for, and have
48 permission to check in changes in, certain subsets of the code. Note
49 that maintainers still need approval to check in changes outside of
50 the immediate domain that they maintain.
52 If there is no maintainer for a given domain then the responsibility
53 falls to the head maintainer (above). If there are several
54 maintainers for a given domain then responsibility falls to the first
55 maintainer. The first maintainer is free to devolve that
56 responsibility among the other maintainers.
58 ALPHA Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
59 ARM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
60 ARM Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
61 ARM (Symbian) Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
62 ARM (Symbian) Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
63 AVR Denis Chertykov <denisc@overta.ru>
64 AVR Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@amelek.gda.pl>
65 BFIN Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
66 BFIN Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
67 BUILD SYSTEM Ben Elliston <bje@gnu.org>
68 BUILD SYSTEM Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
69 CRIS Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
70 CRX Tomer Levi <Tomer.Levi@nsc.com>
71 DLX Nikolaos Kavvadias <nkavv@physics.auth.gr>
72 DWARF2 Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
73 FR30 Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
74 FRV Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
75 FRV Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
76 H8300 Anil Paranjpe <anilp1@kpitcummins.com>
77 HPPA Dave Anglin <dave.anglin@nrc.ca>
78 HPPA elf32 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
79 HPPA elf64 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> [Basic maintainance only]
80 IA-64 Jim Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com>
81 IQ2000 Stan Cox <scox@redhat.com>
82 i860 Jason Eckhardt <jle@rice.edu>
83 ix86 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
84 ix86 PE Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
85 ix86 COFF DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
86 ix86 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
87 ix86 INTEL MODE Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
88 M68HC11 M68HC12 Stephane Carrez <stcarrez@nerim.fr>
89 M68k Ben Elliston <bje@gnu.org>
90 M88k Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
91 MAXQ Inderpreet Singh <inderpreetb@noida.hcltech.com>
92 MEP Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
93 MIPS Eric Christopher <echristo@apple.com>
94 MIPS Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
95 MMIX Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
96 MN10300 Eric Christopher <echristo@apple.com>
97 MN10300 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
98 MSP430 Dmitry Diky <diwil@spec.ru>
99 PPC Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
100 PPC vector ext Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
101 s390, s390x Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
102 SCORE Mei Ligang <ligang@sunnorth.com.cn>
103 SH Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
104 SH Kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
105 SPARC Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
106 TESTSUITES Ben Elliston <bje@gnu.org>
107 TIC4X Svein Seldal <svein@dev.seldal.com>
108 TIC54X Timothy Wall <twall@alum.mit.edu>
109 VAX Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@netbsd.org>
110 VAX Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
111 x86_64 Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
112 x86_64 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
113 x86_64 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
114 Xtensa Bob Wilson <bob.wilson@acm.org>
115 z80 Arnold Metselaar <arnold.metselaar@planet.nl>
116 z8k Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>
119 --------- CGEN Maintainers -------------
121 CGEN is a tool for building, amongst other things, assemblers,
122 disassemblers and simulators from a single description of a CPU.
123 It creates files in several of the binutils directories, but it
124 is mentioned here since there is a single group that maintains
125 CGEN and the files that it creates.
127 If you have CGEN related problems you can send email to;
129 cgen@sources.redhat.com
131 The current CGEN maintainers are:
133 Doug Evans, Frank Eigler
135 --------- Write After Approval ---------
137 Individuals with "write after approval" have the ability to check in
138 changes, but they must get approval for each change from someone in
139 one of the above lists (blanket write or maintainers).
141 [It's a huge list, folks. You know who you are. If you have the
142 *ability* to do binutils checkins, you're in this group. Just
143 remember to get approval before checking anything in.]
145 ------------- Obvious Fixes -------------
147 Fixes for obvious mistakes do not need approval, and can be checked in
148 right away, but the patch should still be sent to the binutils list.
149 The definition of obvious is a bit hazy, and if you are not sure, then
150 you should seek approval first. Obvious fixes include fixes for
151 spelling mistakes, blatantly incorrect code (where the correct code is
152 also blatantly obvious), and so on. Obvious fixes should always be
153 small, the larger they are, the more likely it is that they contain
154 some un-obvious side effect or consequence.
156 --------- Branch Checkins ---------
158 If a patch is approved for check in to the mainline sources, it can
159 also be checked into the current release branch. Normally however
160 only bug fixes should be applied to the branch. New features, new
161 ports, etc, should be restricted to the mainline. (Otherwise the
162 burden of maintaining the branch in sync with the mainline becomes too
163 great). If you are uncertain as to whether a patch is appropriate for
164 the branch, ask the branch maintainer. This is:
166 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
168 -------- Testsuites ---------------
170 In general patches to any of the binutils testsuites should be
171 considered generic and sent to the binutils mailing list for
172 approval. Patches to target specific tests are the responsibility the
173 relevent port maintainer(s), and can be approved/checked in by them.
174 Other testsuite patches need the approval of a blanket-write-priveleges
177 -------- Configure patches ----------
179 Patches to the top level configure files (config.sub & config.guess)
180 are not the domain of the binutils project and they cannot be approved
181 by the binutils group. Instead they should be submitted to the config
184 config-patches@gnu.org
186 --------- Creating Branches ---------
188 Anyone with at least write-after-approval access may create a branch
189 to use for their own development purposes. In keeping with FSF
190 policies, all patches applied to such a branch must come from people
191 with appropriate copyright assignments on file. All legal
192 requirements that would apply to any other contribution apply equally
193 to contributions on a branch.
195 Before creating the branch, you should select a name for the branch of
198 binutils-<org>-<name>
200 where "org" is the initials of your organization, or your own initials
201 if you are acting as an individual. For example, for a branch created
202 by The GNUDist Company, "tgc" would be an appropriate choice for
203 "org". It's up to each organization to select an appropriate choice
204 for "name"; some organizations may use more structure than others, so
205 "name" may contain additional hyphens.
207 Suppose that The GNUDist Company was creating a branch to develop a
208 port of Binutils to the FullMonty processor. Then, an appropriate
209 choice of branch name would be:
213 A data stamp is not required as part of the name field, but some
214 organizations like to have one. If you do include the date, you
215 should follow these rules:
217 1. The date should be the date that the branch was created.
219 2. The date should be numerical and in the form YYYYMMDD.
223 binutils-tgc-fm_20050101
225 would be appropriate if the branch was created on January 1st, 2005.
227 Having selected the branch name, create the branch as follows:
229 1. Check out binutils, so that you have a CVS checkout corresponding
230 to the initial state of your branch.
234 cvs tag binutils-<org>-<name>-branchpoint
236 That tag will allow you, and others, to easily determine what's
237 changed on the branch relative to the initial state.
239 3. Create the branch:
241 cvs rtag -b -r binutils-<org>-<name>-branchpoint \
242 binutils-<org>-<name>-branch
244 4. Document the branch:
246 Add a description of the branch to binutils/BRANCHES, and check
247 that file in. All branch descriptions should be added to the
248 HEAD revision of the file; it doesn't help to modify
249 binutils/BRANCHES on a branch!
251 Please do not commit any patches to a branch you did not create
252 without the explicit permission of the person who created the branch.