Stepping down

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 05:10:25PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Thanks for all your contributions over the years, Kaz.  IMHO you have
> been an excellent machine maintainer for Linux/SH.  You've most
> certainly been an excellent contributor to libc in other ways, and for
> far longer than most people.
> 
> Do you know of anyone else who might step forward to maintain the SH
> port?  Are there Linux distributions that build for SH?
> 
> If it has no maintainer but continues to build fine in some distro,
> then that's fine.  But if either it becomes broken and nobody is
> signed on to fix it, or we have no reason to think anyone has actually
> built it lately, then we'll want to remove it from the tree.

Did you see this?

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/647636/fdb277e9550d7141/

So far their work is focused on sh2/nommu, which glibc probably
doesn't support, but keeping/restoring superh as a
maintained/supported platform at the kernel and toolchain levels is
important and they might have ideas for someone to take on the glibc
port maintainership.

Rich