GDB Release Managers announcement

GDB Release Managers announcement

[Joel Brobecker]

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Hello,

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!

-- 
Joel

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From e81676431815423ea1a4e7f3c9c85a53f8587e78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:30:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] gdb/MAINTAINERS: Document the change of release managers

I am stepping down as GDB Release manager. Andrew Burgess and
Simon Marchi have both kindly volunteered to take on this role.
This commit updates the gdb/MAINTAINERS file accordingly.
---
 gdb/MAINTAINERS | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/MAINTAINERS b/gdb/MAINTAINERS
index f0075ff3834..739c9b5736e 100644
--- a/gdb/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/gdb/MAINTAINERS
@@ -245,9 +245,12 @@ Eli Zaretskii			eliz@gnu.org
 			Release Manager
 			---------------
 
-The current release manager is: Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
+The current release managers are:
 
-His responsibilities are:
+Andrew Burgess                  aburgess@redhat.com
+Simon Marchi                    simon.marchi@polymtl.ca
+
+Their responsibilities are:
 
     * organizing, scheduling, and managing releases of GDB.
 
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Re: GDB Release Managers announcement

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

On Wednesday, 17 June 2026, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> 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 very much for all these years of commitment and hard work
doing the releases, Joel!

And thanks to Andrew and Simon for stepping up, too!

Cheers,

-- 
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Re: GDB Release Managers announcement

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> Hello,
>
> 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.

It is difficult to express the colossal amount of gratitude you deserve
for all the (often thankless) effort spent in doing all these releases
for the benefit of everyone...

From this GDB user and sporadic contributor: thank you SO MUCH Joel!

> 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!

Re: GDB Release Managers announcement

[Thiago Jung Bauermann]

Hello Joel,

Joel Brobecker <brobecke@adacore.com> writes:

> 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 very much for your hard work! GDB has been lucky to have you
as release manager.

And thank you to Andrew and Simon for stepping in!

-- 
Thiago
(he/him)

Re: GDB Release Managers announcement

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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!

Re: GDB Release Managers announcement

[Simon Marchi]

On 6/17/26 1:54 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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!
> 
> -- 
> Joel

Thank you Joel for your work throughout the years and helping us get
started with this role.  And thank you Andrew for sharing this role with
me, I would be a bit afraid to take this one just by myself!

Simon

Re: GDB Release Managers announcement

[Pedro Alves]

Hi Joel,

Coming in a bit late, but ...

A major THANK YOU for doing this thankless job all this long, and for
handling it so well, that we just all took it for granted, without having
to worry much about it.  We were truly lucky.

And thank you to Simon and Andrew for stepping up!

Pedro Alves


On 2026-06-17 18:54, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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!
>