Andreas Tobler appointed FreeBSD maintainer
Andreas Tobler
andreast-list@fgznet.ch
Mon Jun 22 20:34:00 GMT 2015
On 22.06.15 20:33, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> 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!
Thank you!
I updated the MAINTAINERS file, see below.
Andreas
2015-06-22 Andreas Tobler <andreast@gcc.gnu.org>
* MAINTAINERS (OS Port Maintainers): Add myself.
(Various Maintainers): Remove myself from libffi testsuite.
Index: MAINTAINERS
===================================================================
--- MAINTAINERS (revision 224759)
+++ MAINTAINERS (working copy)
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
darwin port Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net>
darwin port Eric Christopher <echristo@gmail.com>
DJGPP DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
-freebsd Loren J. Rittle <ljrittle@acm.org>
+freebsd Andreas Tobler <andreast@gcc.gnu.org>
GNU/Hurd Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>
hpux John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
hpux Steve Ellcey <sellcey@mips.com>
@@ -175,7 +175,6 @@
libiberty DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
libiberty Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
libitm Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>
-libffi testsuite Andreas Tobler <andreast@gcc.gnu.org>
libmpx Ilya Enkovich <enkovich.gnu@gmail.com>
libobjc Nicola Pero <nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com>
libobjc Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>
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