Re: glibc subtree maintainers list - any updates?

[Dwayne Grant McConnell <decimal at us dot ibm dot com>]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Roland McGrath wrote:

> It would be great if you could rewrite that web page. :-)
> (You should already have access via savannah cvs.)

Will do.

> It is somewhat out of date, and I'm not sure how useful its organization
> is.  It's nice to have that information around and current.  
> But, like Daniel, I wonder what you are actually using it for.

I'm going through the bugs now grouping them by topic including by 
architecture and I was going to CC the relevant person in my notes. But 
I'm happy to just send to libc-alpha/libc-ports too. I also assumed the 
web page was out of date and figured this was as good a time as any to 
update it. I'll use you notes below as a starting point.

> Are you looking for specific people to CC on bugzilla reports that are
> machine-specific?  When an issue is clearly particular to an architecture,
> it may be useful to poke a particular person to weigh in on it.  But, all
> appropriate such people are expected to be on libc-alpha and/or libc-ports
> already.  So it may be simplest just to post a request on the mailing list
> (libc-ports if the architecture is in ports, libc-alpha if in core)
> pointing to the bugzilla.  That also gets the attention of anyone else who
> happens to know enough about that architecture to help with that issue.
> 
> As to updating that page, firstly it should say something about 2.3 vs 2.4
> in the Supported Systems part.  For the maintainers info, it's only useful
> to talk about the trunk state of things.
> 
> In Subtree Maintainers, some email addresses are old; you can find each
> person's name in a recent ChangeLog entry to see what address they
> currently prefer for glibc purposes; for people who have gnu.org aliases,
> that is usually the best thing to use (it's right for me, though I use
> different addresses in log entries).  Also "ppc" is really "powerpc".
> 
> The statement "All architecture-specific or system-specific directories
> not listed here are currently not actively maintained." is not quite
> true.  For one thing, it doesn't list sysdeps/unix and so forth, and
> sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux that are "system-specific" but in fact part of
> the "generic" core for maintenance purposes.  It should separately
> indicate the list in the core tree and the list in the ports repository.
> As of now, we like to think that all of the architectures in the core
> tree are being quite actively maintained.  (Ones that aren't, we've
> moved to ports.)  A few ports architectures are pretty actively
> maintained, but just because there is a person on the list who might
> even answer, doesn't mean that it's actively maintained (it might just
> mean there is someone to talk to if you want to work on fixing it).
> Conversely just because it's actively maintained doesn't mean it's
> actually quite working; Carlos might like to have a pointer to his
> status on hppa work.
> 
> It would be more useful to group the related directories together, and
> perhaps include a config triplet in the heading.  Then there are just a
> few blocks, and those are:
> 
> * core
> ** alpha: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
> ** i386: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
> ** x86_64: ??? Andreas Jaeger ??? Ulrich Drepper ???
> ** ia64: ??? Jakub Jelinek ??? H.J. Lu ???
> ** powerpc: Steven Munroe <munroesj@us.ibm.com>
> ** s390: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> ** sparc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
> ** sh: Kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
> ** hurd: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>
> 
> * ports
> ** m68k: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> ** mips: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> ** arm: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> ** am33: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
> ** hppa: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>
> ** powerpc/nofpu: Steven Munroe <munroesj@us.ibm.com>
> 
> Those are the people nominally responsible and who should sign off on
> ABI choices specific to that machine and so forth, who "represent the
> users" of the architecture, though certainly not necessarily the people
> who work most on that architecture's code.  (For most of the core linux
> architectures, Jakub does more fixing, testing, and proactive watching
> out for architecture issues, than everyone else.)

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