[EXTERNAL]Re: MIPS Maintainer

[David Edelsohn]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 12:52 PM Chao-ying Fu <cfu@wavecomp.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Maciej,
>
> >  Great to hear from you again!
>
>   It's great to hear from you, too!
>
> > >   We just wonder if you can sponsor me to become a MIPS maintainer,
> > > because Wave Computing would like to continue supporting MIPS
> > > architecture in GCC, although there are very few patches for MIPS
> > > recently. Any feedback is welcome.
>
> >  Well, it's up to the GCC steering committee really to appoint maintainers
> > <https://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html>, however you can post patches and help
> > with getting reviews through right away.  There hasn't been much traffic
> > with the MIPS port recently, but there has been some and it always helps
> > to have someone provide input.
>
>   I got David Edelsohn's email and replied to him yesterday.
> We have some small tweaks in GCC and can send the patches.
> There is a big patch for nanoMIPS that stays as-is for long time.
> It will take time to get the patch working against the latest code base,
> if the community wants to include nanoMIPS in GCC.

You shouldn't ask to be a co-maintainer solely because you want to
contribute patches, or patches that are specific to your specific
implementation of Mips.  You already can contribute patches.
Maintainers / reviewers for a port review all patches relevant to the
port, their appointment is to the community role, not a role for their
specific vendor.

Thanks, David