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The Current Release Manager

Joel Brobecker is the current Release Manager.

Past Release Managers

Our thanks go out to all of the past release managers:

• Andrew Cagney (releases 6.3, 6.2, 6.1, 6.0, 5.3, 5.2, 5.1 and 5.0).
• Jim Blandy (release 4.18).
• Jason Molenda (release 4.17).
• Stan Shebs (release 4.14).
• Fred Fish (releases 4.16, 4.15, 4.13, 4.12, 4.11, 4.10, and 4.9).
• Stu Grossman and John Gilmore (releases 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, and 4.4).
• John Gilmore (releases 4.3, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, and 3.9).
• Jim Kingdon (releases 3.5, 3.4, and 3.3).
• Randy Smith (releases 3.2, 3.1, and 3.0).
• Richard Stallman, assisted at various times by Peter TerMaat, Chris Hanson, and Richard Mlynarik, handled releases through 2.8.

The Release Manager's Role

• The GDB Maintainers appoints a Release Manager.
• The Release Manager is responsible for organizing, scheduling, and managing releases of GDB.
• The Release Manager decides the approval and commit policies for release branches, and can change them as needed.
• The Release Manager can resign at any time. The GDB Maintainers will appoint a replacement in a reasonable amount of time.
• The GDB Maintainers retain the authority to overrule or replace the Release Manager, but will not ordinarily do so.

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