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Andreas Tobler appointed FreeBSD maintainer (was: FreeBSD users of gcc)
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Loren James Rittle <ljrittle at acm dot org>, Andreas Tobler <andreastt at gmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 20:33:53 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Andreas Tobler appointed FreeBSD maintainer (was: FreeBSD users of gcc)
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A while ago Loren James Rittle, who had been taking care of GCC
on FreeBSD for many years and brought the port to modern standards,
wrote the following on this list:
>> I am the named maintainer of the freebsd port. I have been for
>> approximately twelve years; although I haven't been very active
>> the last four years. [...] I am looking for someone that both the
>> GCC steering committee and I would be willing to hand over the
>> reigns before I drop my officially-listed maintainership.
Turns out that with Andreas Tobler we are in the lucky position to
have someone like that. Andreas already contributed arm*-*-freebsd*
support, PIE support for FreeBSD, did some PowerPC work, and more.
So, today I am happy to announce that the steering committee has
appointed Andreas maintainer of the FreeBSD ports of GCC.
And I'd like to extend many thanks to Loren James for all his
contributions to libstdc++ and GCC on FreeBSD over many years.
Thanks a bunch, Loren, and happy hacking, Andreas!
Gerald