Re: GDB Release Managers announcement

["Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org>]

> 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!