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Re: [MAINT] src/mmalloc maintainers


Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This directory is probably best described as one of GDB's forgotten
> siblings.  At present it isn't clear what the maintenance policy is.
> With that in mind I'd like to propose:
> 
>         GDB's host/native maintainers have implicit check-in
>         rights to the src/mmalloc tree.  If there isn't a
>         relevant host/native maintainer than the head maintainer
>         ends up with the problem :-)
> 
> I can't see anyone doing anything to that directory tree unless they are
> a native/host maintainer and then the only thing would be fixing
> configury problems.
> 
> I'm almost tempted to include target maintainers.  I suspect, however,
> that getting the native expert a chance to look things over would be
> safer.
> 
> thoughts?


FYI,  I've checked in the attatched.  It hopefully reflects this
proposal.

	Andrew
Index: gdb/ChangeLog
Mon Feb 28 10:58:45 2000  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>

	* MAINTAINERS: Mention mmalloc.  Expand Host/Native and
 	Target/Architecture maintainers descriptions.

Index: mmalloc/ChangeLog
Mon Feb 28 10:33:51 2000  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@b1.cygnus.com>

	* MAINTAINERS: New file.

Index: gdb/MAINTAINERS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/MAINTAINERS,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -p -r1.11 MAINTAINERS
*** MAINTAINERS	2000/02/26 06:20:56	1.11
--- MAINTAINERS	2000/02/28 00:06:00
*************** available to step in if the first mainta
*** 21,29 ****
  reason.
  
  
! Target/Architecture: Generic ISA - Instruction Set Architecture -
! issues. API variants, CPU variants.  *-tdep.c.
  
  d10v target		Andrew Cagney		cagney@cygnus.com
  d30v target		Andrew Cagney		cagney@cygnus.com
  mips target		Andrew Cagney		cagney@cygnus.com
--- 21,32 ----
  reason.
  
  
! Target/Architecture:
  
+ Generic ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) issues, API variants, CPU
+ variants.  *-tdep.c. The Target/Architecture maintainer works with the
+ host maintainer when resolving build issues.
+ 
  d10v target		Andrew Cagney		cagney@cygnus.com
  d30v target		Andrew Cagney		cagney@cygnus.com
  mips target		Andrew Cagney		cagney@cygnus.com
*************** arm target		Fernando Nasser		fnasser@cyg
*** 36,47 ****
  m32r target		Michael Snyder		msnyder@cygnus.com
  IA-64 target		Kevin Buettner		kevinb@cygnus.com
  
  
! Host/Native: Target specific native support - typically shared
! libraries and quirks to procfs/ptrace/...  A native maintainer works
! with the arch and core maintainer when resolving more generic
! problems.
  
  hp testsuite (gdb.hp)	Jimmy Guo	 adl-debugger-wdb-merge-guru@cup.hp.com
  djgpp native		Eli Zaretskii		eliz@gnu.org
  			DJ Delorie		dj@cygnus.com
--- 39,55 ----
  m32r target		Michael Snyder		msnyder@cygnus.com
  IA-64 target		Kevin Buettner		kevinb@cygnus.com
  
+ 
+ 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 (including mmalloc) can be built
+ as a cross debugger on their platform.
+ 
  hp testsuite (gdb.hp)	Jimmy Guo	 adl-debugger-wdb-merge-guru@cup.hp.com
  djgpp native		Eli Zaretskii		eliz@gnu.org
  			DJ Delorie		dj@cygnus.com
*************** Misc:
*** 105,111 ****
  Web pages.		Jim Kingdon		kingdon@redhat.com
  			(anyone can edit; kingdon is just lead maintainer)
  Makefile.in, configure*	ALL
! 
  
  
  		Write After Approval
--- 113,119 ----
  Web pages.		Jim Kingdon		kingdon@redhat.com
  			(anyone can edit; kingdon is just lead maintainer)
  Makefile.in, configure*	ALL
! mmalloc			ALL Host maintainers
  
  
  		Write After Approval
Index: mmalloc/MAINTAINERS
===================================================================
RCS file: MAINTAINERS
diff -N MAINTAINERS
*** /dev/null	Tue May  5 13:32:27 1998
--- MAINTAINERS	Sun Feb 27 16:06:09 2000
***************
*** 0 ****
--- 1,5 ----
+ The mmalloc directory is maintained by the GDB group's Host
+ maintainers.
+ 
+ This code is in a maintain-only phase - only configury patches fixing
+ host compile problems are generally accepted.

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