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 binutils@sourceware.org
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.ac, 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@sourceware.org).
30 Patches to the libiberty sources should be sent to
31 gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org.
33 --------- Blanket Write Privs ---------
35 The following people have permission to check patches into the
36 repository without obtaining approval first:
38 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> (head maintainer)
39 Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
40 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
41 Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>
42 DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
43 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
44 Michael Meissner <gnu@the-meissners.org>
45 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
46 Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
48 --------- Maintainers ---------
50 Maintainers are individuals who are responsible for, and have
51 permission to check in changes in, certain subsets of the code. Note
52 that maintainers still need approval to check in changes outside of
53 the immediate domain that they maintain.
55 If there is no maintainer for a given domain then the responsibility
56 falls to the head maintainer (above). If there are several
57 maintainers for a given domain then responsibility falls to the first
58 maintainer. The first maintainer is free to devolve that
59 responsibility among the other maintainers.
61 ALPHA Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
62 AARCH64 Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
63 AARCH64 Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@arm.com>
64 ARM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
65 ARM Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
66 ARM Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@arm.com>
67 AVR Denis Chertykov <chertykov@gmail.com>
68 AVR Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@amelek.gda.pl>
69 BFIN Jie Zhang <jzhang918@gmail.com>
70 BFIN Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
71 BUILD SYSTEM Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
72 CR16 M R Swami Reddy <MR.Swami.Reddy@nsc.com>
73 CRIS Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
74 CRX M R Swami Reddy <MR.Swami.Reddy@nsc.com>
75 DLX Nikolaos Kavvadias <nkavv@physics.auth.gr>
76 DWARF2 Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
77 DWARF2 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
78 dwarf-mode.el Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
79 EPIPHANY Joern Rennecke <joern.rennecke@embecosm.com>
80 FR30 Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
81 FRV Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
82 FRV Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
83 GOLD Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
84 GOLD Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com>
85 H8300 Prafulla Thakare <prafulla.thakare@kpitcummins.com>
86 HPPA Dave Anglin <dave.anglin@nrc.ca>
87 HPPA elf32 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
88 HPPA elf64 Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> [Basic maintainance only]
89 IA-64 Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>
90 IQ2000 Stan Cox <scox@redhat.com>
91 ix86 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
92 ix86 PE Christopher Faylor <me+binutils@cgf.cx>
93 ix86 COFF DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
94 ix86 PE/COFF Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com>
95 ix86 INTEL MODE Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
96 LM32 Jon Beniston <jon@beniston.com>
97 M32R Doug Evans <dje@sebabeach.org>
98 M68HC11 M68HC12 Stephane Carrez <Stephane.Carrez@gmail.com>
99 M68HC11 M68HC12 Sean Keys <skeys@ipdatasys.com>
100 M88k Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
101 MACH-O Tristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr>
102 MAXQ Inderpreet Singh <inderpreetb@noida.hcltech.com>
103 MEP Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
104 METAG Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
105 MICROBLAZE Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com>
106 MIPS Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@mips.com>
107 MMIX Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
108 MN10300 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
109 Moxie Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
110 MSP430 Dmitry Diky <diwil@spec.ru>
111 NDS32 Kuan-Lin Chen <kuanlinchentw@gmail.com>
112 NDS32 Wei-Cheng Wang <cole945@gmail.com>
113 NetBSD support Matt Thomas <matt@netbsd.org>
114 Nios II Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>
115 Nios II Andrew Jenner <andrew@codesourcery.com>
116 OR1K Christian Svensson <blue@cmd.nu>
117 OR1K Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
118 PPC Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
119 PPC Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
120 PPC Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com>
121 PPC vector ext Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com>
122 RISC-V Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
123 RISC-V Andrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>
124 RISC-V Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com>
125 RL78 DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
126 RX DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
127 RX Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
128 s390, s390x Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
129 s390, s390x Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
130 SH Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
131 SPARC David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
132 SPARC Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
133 SPU Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
134 TIC54X Timothy Wall <twall@alum.mit.edu>
135 TIC6X Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
136 TILE-Gx Walter Lee <walt@tilera.com>
137 TILEPro Walter Lee <walt@tilera.com>
138 VAX Matt Thomas <matt@netbsd.org>
139 VAX Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
140 Visium Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
141 VMS Tristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr>
142 x86_64 Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
143 x86_64 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
144 x86_64 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
145 XCOFF Richard Sandiford <r.sandiford@uk.ibm.com>
146 XGATE Sean Keys <skeys@ipdatasys.com>
147 Xtensa Sterling Augustine <augustine.sterling@gmail.com>
148 z80 Arnold Metselaar <arnold.metselaar@planet.nl>
149 z8k Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>
151 --------- Past Maintainers -------------
153 These folks have acted as maintainers in the past, but have now
154 moved on to other things. Our thanks for all their hard work
165 --------- CGEN Maintainers -------------
167 CGEN is a tool for building, amongst other things, assemblers,
168 disassemblers and simulators from a single description of a CPU.
169 It creates files in several of the binutils directories, but it
170 is mentioned here since there is a single group that maintains
171 CGEN and the files that it creates.
173 If you have CGEN related problems you can send email to;
177 The current CGEN maintainers are:
179 Doug Evans, Frank Eigler
181 --------- Write After Approval ---------
183 Individuals with "write after approval" have the ability to check in
184 changes, but they must get approval for each change from someone in
185 one of the above lists (blanket write or maintainers).
187 [It's a huge list, folks. You know who you are. If you have the
188 *ability* to do binutils checkins, you're in this group. Just
189 remember to get approval before checking anything in.]
191 ------------- Obvious Fixes -------------
193 Fixes for obvious mistakes do not need approval, and can be checked in
194 right away, but the patch should still be sent to the binutils list.
195 The definition of obvious is a bit hazy, and if you are not sure, then
196 you should seek approval first. Obvious fixes include fixes for
197 spelling mistakes, blatantly incorrect code (where the correct code is
198 also blatantly obvious), and so on. Obvious fixes should always be
199 small, the larger they are, the more likely it is that they contain
200 some un-obvious side effect or consequence.
202 --------- Branch Checkins ---------
204 If a patch is approved for check in to the mainline sources, it can
205 also be checked into the current release branch. Normally however
206 only bug fixes should be applied to the branch. New features, new
207 ports, etc, should be restricted to the mainline. (Otherwise the
208 burden of maintaining the branch in sync with the mainline becomes too
209 great). If you are uncertain as to whether a patch is appropriate for
210 the branch, ask the branch maintainer. This is:
212 (cf global maintainers)
214 -------- Testsuites ---------------
216 In general patches to any of the binutils testsuites should be
217 considered generic and sent to the binutils mailing list for
218 approval. Patches to target specific tests are the responsibility the
219 relevant port maintainer(s), and can be approved/checked in by them.
220 Other testsuite patches need the approval of a blanket-write-priveleges
223 -------- Configure patches ----------
225 Patches to the top level configure files (config.sub & config.guess)
226 are not the domain of the binutils project and they cannot be approved
227 by the binutils group. Instead they should be submitted to the config
230 config-patches@gnu.org
232 --------- Creating Branches ---------
234 Anyone with at least write-after-approval access may create a branch
235 to use for their own development purposes. In keeping with FSF
236 policies, all patches applied to such a branch must come from people
237 with appropriate copyright assignments on file. All legal
238 requirements that would apply to any other contribution apply equally
239 to contributions on a branch.
241 Before creating the branch, you should select a name for the branch of
244 binutils-<org>-<name>
246 where "org" is the initials of your organization, or your own initials
247 if you are acting as an individual. For example, for a branch created
248 by The GNUDist Company, "tgc" would be an appropriate choice for
249 "org". It's up to each organization to select an appropriate choice
250 for "name"; some organizations may use more structure than others, so
251 "name" may contain additional hyphens.
253 Suppose that The GNUDist Company was creating a branch to develop a
254 port of Binutils to the FullMonty processor. Then, an appropriate
255 choice of branch name would be:
259 A date stamp is not required as part of the name field, but some
260 organizations like to have one. If you do include the date, you
261 should follow these rules:
263 1. The date should be the date that the branch was created.
265 2. The date should be numerical and in the form YYYYMMDD.
269 binutils-tgc-fm_20050101
271 would be appropriate if the branch was created on January 1st, 2005.
273 Having selected the branch name, create the branch as follows:
275 1. Check out binutils, so that you have a git checkout corresponding
276 to the initial state of your branch.
280 git tag binutils-<org>-<name>-branchpoint
282 That tag will allow you, and others, to easily determine what's
283 changed on the branch relative to the initial state.
285 3. Create and push the branch:
287 git checkout -b binutils-<org>-<name>-branch
290 4. Document the branch:
292 Add a description of the branch to binutils/BRANCHES, and check
293 that file in. All branch descriptions should be added to the
294 HEAD revision of the file; it doesn't help to modify
295 binutils/BRANCHES on a branch!
297 Please do not commit any patches to a branch you did not create
298 without the explicit permission of the person who created the branch.
300 Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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