[ANNOUNCEMENT] [AArch64/Arm] Maintainership updates

After several years of dedicated service, Alan Hayward has decided to step down
from his role as maintainer. Alan has been instrumental in keeping the Arm
ports robust and modern. Most notably, he championed the complex task of
implementing support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE), which required
significant changes to how GDB handles variable register sizes, something that
is used for SME to this day. Beyond SVE, he also enabled Pointer Authentication
support for AArch64. And his work on XML target descriptions and general
infrastructure refactoring have left the codebase in a much stronger position.

We thank Alan for his leadership and his many contributions to the project over
the years.

At the same time, I am pleased to announce that Thiago Bauermann has agreed to
step up as a new co-maintainer for AArch64 and Arm. Thiago is already a familiar
face in the community, having contributed extensively to GDB on PowerPC and,
more recently, AArch64. His recent work on MOPS, GCS and SME features have been
vital for keeping GDB aligned with the latest developments on AArch64.

Thiago has also contributed significant time reviewing patches from others,
something that is highly appreciated in the community.

Please join me in thanking Alan for his hard work and welcoming Thiago to
his new role. I have updated the gdb/MAINTAINERS file accordingly.

diff --git a/gdb/MAINTAINERS b/gdb/MAINTAINERS
index ab06a8f80725594947cd26662f6d7f71ef00f095..a6ac9f04099da45888e0b71c6ca8b80b7673860a 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/gdb/MAINTAINERS
@@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ resolving build issues.  The Target/Architecture maintainer works with
 the native maintainer when resolving ABI issues.
 
        aarch64         --target=aarch64-elf
-                       Alan Hayward            alan.hayward@arm.com
                        Luis Machado            luis.machado.foss@gmail.com
+                       Thiago Jung Bauermann   thiago.bauermann@linaro.org
 
        alpha           --target=alpha-elf
 
@@ -331,8 +331,8 @@ the native maintainer when resolving ABI issues.
                        Shahab Vahedi           list@vahedi.org
 
        arm             --target=arm-elf
-                       Alan Hayward            alan.hayward@arm.com
                        Luis Machado            luis.machado.foss@gmail.com
+                       Thiago Jung Bauermann   thiago.bauermann@linaro.org
 
        avr             --target=avr
 
@@ -872,6 +872,7 @@ Joel Brobecker (Global, Ada)                        brobecker@adacore.com
 Doug Evans (Global)                            dje@google.com
 Yao Qi (Global)                                        qiyao@sourceware.org
 Felix Willgerodt (amd64, i386)                 felix.willgerodt@gmail.com
+Alan Hayward (AArch64, arm)                    alan.hayward@arm.com
 
 
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