From: Aaron W. L. <aar...@aa...> - 2007-09-13 17:34:33
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Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > I must have missed Danny's original response regarding the exact state > of MinGW gcc, so I sent him a quick note. It looks like Danny is > somewhat willing to continue with the win32 gcc maintainership, just > not the MinGW package maintainership for gcc/binutils. I don't have > the bandwidth to take on gcc atm, but is there anyone else out there > willing to take the challenge? It would be ashame to loose the > momentum we had. I'm happy to hear Danny may still be working on the GCC end, as there are very few other people submitting patches to FSF GCC for Windows. I have some time again, and I have significant familiarity with the binutils/GCC toolchain on Windows, so I would be willing to help with the mechanical details of maintainership. I have enough resources such as bandwidth and computing time (testsuite, etc) to assist in this capacity. So, I'm volunteering for this position. > In talking to a couple of folks, it seems like the general description > of what being the gcc/binutils maintainer contains was not overly > obvious. Perhaps posting another request with exact details would > help? I assume it's just packaging, uploading, news release and > on-going support? One of the most important roles Danny had was his role as a liaison between MinGW.org and the FSF binutils and GCC teams, in filing bugs in the official trackers, and following up on fixing them. |