On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Sterling Augustine wrote: > Could I ping on the issue described below? > > Bob can no longer maintain the Xtensa port for GCC, and I don't think he > is even reading the GCC mailing list any more. For the forseeable > future, I am responsible for the Xtensa port of GCC here at Tensilica. > > What should I do to move the process forward? > > Thanks, > Sterling
Sorry I missed this back when it was originally posted, and the other SC members likely did also. I'll try and get you going. There are several steps to moving the process forward. They generally need to be done in the order I'm presenting them. 1. The first thing that you need to ensure gets done is copyright assignment papers for your contributions to GCC. Your employer will need to also assign its rights. (One or both of these may already be done). See here for legal and other contribution guidelines: http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html 2. Next you need to get write-after-approval access. More info here: http://gcc.gnu.org/svnwrite.html 3. After familiarizing yourself with the above and fulfilling the legal requirements, you can then fill out this form to get access. I guess you can use Bob as the reference who approved it: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/pdw/ps_form.cgi 4. Once these are done, the steering committee may decide to grant you maintainership. We generally prefer to see one submit a few patches and see how well they work together with other developers. However since Bob recommended you, the port is unmaintained at the moment and your maintainership perview would be localized to the xtensa subdir it may be possible to expedite this. Let me know the status of the above issues and I will forward your proposal to the SC. Regards, --Kaveh -- Kaveh R. Ghazi gh...@caip.rutgers.edu
