x86 maintainers

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Tue Feb 21 13:33:00 GMT 2012


The list of architecture maintainers at 
<http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS> does not include anyone for 
i386 or x86_64.  I think all architectures should have maintainers (quite 
likely the same people for both i386 and x86_64, though that's not 
required) - any volunteers or nominations of people with appropriate x86 
architecture expertise?

The responsibilities of architecture maintainers include reviewing changes 
to architecture-specific code - thus you'd need to review the x32 support, 
in particular, when that is submitted.  In general it's a good idea for 
such maintainers to make sure their architecture is in good shape in 
advance of a release, although enough people test on i386/x86_64 I doubt 
they will get in particularly bad shape.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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