Re: GDB Release Managers announcement

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:54:36 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecke@adacore.com>
> Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> A quick message to let everyone know that I am stepping down from
> my role as GDB Release Manager. Andrew Burgess and Simon Marchi,
> two of GDB's Global Maintainers, have volunteered to take on
> this role in my place. Please join me in thanking them for generously
> offering their time to keep our releases running smoothly.
> 
> Attached is the patch to gdb/MAINTAINERS which I will push next
> to master, making the change official.
> 
> Speaking for myself, I am deeply thankful for having been trusted with
> this responsibility. Thanks to to hard work of all the contributors,
> testers, Area Maintainers and Global Maintainers, we managed over
> a period of about 20 years to produce almost 60 releases in total.
> 
> I'm excited to see such long time contributors as Simon and Andrew
> stepping in. I don't see the project being as active as ever, so
> I look forward to many more releases!

Thank you for doing this job till now, and thanks to Andrew and Simon
for stepping up!