On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 12:52 PM Chao-ying Fu <c...@wavecomp.com> wrote: > > Hi Maciej, > > > Great to hear from you again! > > It's great to hear from you, too! > > > > We just wonder if you can sponsor me to become a MIPS maintainer, > > > because Wave Computing would like to continue supporting MIPS > > > architecture in GCC, although there are very few patches for MIPS > > > recently. Any feedback is welcome. > > > Well, it's up to the GCC steering committee really to appoint maintainers > > <https://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html>, however you can post patches and help > > with getting reviews through right away. There hasn't been much traffic > > with the MIPS port recently, but there has been some and it always helps > > to have someone provide input. > > I got David Edelsohn's email and replied to him yesterday. > We have some small tweaks in GCC and can send the patches. > There is a big patch for nanoMIPS that stays as-is for long time. > It will take time to get the patch working against the latest code base, > if the community wants to include nanoMIPS in GCC.
You shouldn't ask to be a co-maintainer solely because you want to contribute patches, or patches that are specific to your specific implementation of Mips. You already can contribute patches. Maintainers / reviewers for a port review all patches relevant to the port, their appointment is to the community role, not a role for their specific vendor. Thanks, David
