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Re: [MAINT] src/mmalloc maintainers
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- Subject: Re: [MAINT] src/mmalloc maintainers
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:19:53 +1100
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
- References: <38B35300.41508CB6@cygnus.com>
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.