On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Andrew Hutchinson <andrewhutchin...@cox.net> wrote: > How does one get to be maintainer of port? > > Specifically AVR port - so that I do not need to get approval to commit > changes. The time it takes now is rather longer than getting approval on > other parts of GCC. > > The process does not seem to be written down anywhere - but I am sure > someone will correct me if I am wrong.
Maintainers are appointed by the GCC Steering Committee. Someone nominates you or you nominate yourself through a member of the committee, like me. It helps to have support from / agreement of the current maintainers. Happy Holidays, David
