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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