		========= Binutils Maintainers =========

This is the list of individuals responsible for maintenance and update
of the GNU Binary Utilities project.  This includes the linker (ld),
the assembler (gas), the profiler (gprof), a whole suite of other
programs (binutils) and the libraries that they use (bfd and
opcodes).  This project shares a common set of header files with the
GCC and GDB projects (include), so maintainership of those files is 
shared amoungst the projects.

The home page for binutils is:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/binutils.html

and patches should be sent to:

  bug-binutils@gnu.org
  
with "[Patch]" as part of the subject line.  Note - patches to the
top level configure.in and config.sub scripts should be sent to:

  config-patches@gnu.org

and not to the binutils list.

		--------- Blanket Write Privs ---------

The following people have permission to check patches into the
repository without obtaining approval first:
		
  Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> (head maintainer)
  Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
  Ian Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
  Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
  Jim Wilson <wilson@redhat.com>
  DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
  Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
  Michael Meissner <meissner@redhat.com>

      --------- Maintainers ---------

Maintainers are individuals who are responsible for, and have
permission to check in changes in, certain subsets of the code.  Note
that maintainers still need approval to check in changes outside of
the immediate domain that they maintain.

If there is no maintainer for a given domain then the responsibility
falls to the head maintainer (above).  If there are several
maintainers for a given domain then responsibility falls to the first
maintainer.  The first maintainer is free to devolve that
responsibility among the other maintainers.

  ARM		   Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
  AVR		   Denis Chertykov <denisc@overta.ru>
  CRIS		   Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@axis.com>
  DWARF2	   Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
  HPPA elf32	   Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
  IA64		   Jim Wilson <wilson@redhat.com>
  x86_64	   Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
  x86_64	   Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
  i860		   Jason Eckhardt <jle@redhat.com>
  ix86		   Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
  ix86 COFF,PE	   DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
  ix86		   H.J.Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
  ix86 INTEL MODE  Diego Novillo <dnovillo@redhat.com>
  M68HC11 M68HC12  Stephane Carrez <Stephane.Carrez@worldnet.fr>
  MN10300	   Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
  MIPS		   Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
  M88k		   Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com>
  PPC		   Geoff Keating <geoffk@redhat.com>
  SH		   Jörn Rennecke <amylaar@redhat.com>
  SH		   Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
  SPARC		   Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
  z8k		   Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>

      --------- CGEN Maintainers -------------

CGEN is a tool for building, amongst other things, assemblers,
disassemblers and simulators from a single description of a CPU.
It creates files in several of the binutils directories, but it
is mentioned here since there is a single group that maintains
CGEN and the files that it creates. 

If you have CGEN related problems you can send email to;

   cgen@sources.redhat.com

The current CGEN maintainers are:

  Doug Evans, Ben Elliston, Frank Eigler

     --------- Write After Approval ---------

Individuals with "write after approval" have the ability to check in
changes, but they must get approval for each change from someone in
one of the above lists (blanket write or maintainers).

[It's a huge list, folks.  You know who you are.  If you have the
 *ability* to do binutils checkins, you're in this group.  Just
 remember to get approval before checking anything in.]

     -------------  Obvious Fixes -------------

Fixes for obvious mistakes do not need approval, and can be checked in
right away, but the patch should still be sent to the binutils list.
The definition of obvious is a bit hazy, and if you are not sure, then
you should seek approval first.  Obvious fixes include fixes for
spelling mistakes, blatantly incorrect code (where the correct code is
also blatantly obvious), and so on.  Obvious fixes should always be
small, the larger they are, the more likely it is that they contain
some un-obvious side effect or consequence.

    --------- Branch Checkins ---------

If a patch is approved for check in to the mainline sources, it can
also be checked into the current release branch.  Normally however
only bug fixes should be applied to the branch.  New features, new
ports, etc, should be restricted to the mainline.  (Otherwise the
burden of maintaining the branch in sync with the mainline becomes too 
great).  If you are uncertain as to whether a patch is appropriate for
the branch, ask the branch maintainer.  This is:

   Philip Blundell  <philb@gnu.org>
