Procedure to allow creation of a"users/ARM" namespace on binutils-gdb git?

[Marcin Kościelnicki]

Is there even such a procedure?  I assumed branches in "users/" may be 
created at will by anyone (I didn't ask anyone before creating my 
users/mwk/*).

On 14/03/16 13:07, Thomas Preudhomme wrote:
> Ping?
>
> On Thursday 10 March 2016 10:08:13 Thomas Preudhomme wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> TL;DR: What needs doing to OK the creation of a "users/ARM" namespace on
>> binutils-gdb git?
>>
>> The toolchain that ARM maintains at [1] occasionally contains some patches
>> on top of the stable binutils and gdb branches on which it is based.
>> Typically, this would be backports to add support for a new ARM
>> architecture (eg. Cortex- m7 support in our release based on GCC 4.8 and
>> 4.9). The source for this is currently only available as tarball and we
>> would like to have publicly available branches for users who which to have
>> the patch breakdown or prefer to use git clone. These would work in a
>> similar manner to the ARM/embedded-5- branch in GCC SVN repository. We
>> believe the most sensible location for hosting these branches is on
>> sourceware as a sub-namespace of users, in the same way as the "users/hjl"
>> namespace. People would then clone the binutils branch with git clone -b
>> ARM/embedded-5-branch
>> ssh://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git and similar for gdb.
>>
>> We are therefore wondering what is the procedure to OK the creation a new
>> namespace (say users/ARM) on sourceware?
>>
>> [1] https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Thomas Preud'homme
>