PowerPC GCC maintainer
Michael Meissner proposes himself as a GCC PowerPC maintainer to address bandwidth issues.
Michael Meissner proposes that the steering committee add him as a GCC PowerPC maintainer. He hopes this will address bandwidth issues adding PowerPC patches. Meissner has extensive experience working on GCC since 1985, including PowerPC support at IBM.
In Details
This concerns maintainership of the PowerPC backend of GCC. GCC backends handle the architecture-specific code generation and optimization for a given target. Maintainers review and approve patches for their respective architectures.
For Context
GCC is a compiler that supports multiple target architectures. Each architecture has a "backend" responsible for translating the compiler's intermediate representation into machine code for that architecture. Maintainers are responsible for reviewing and approving changes to the backend.