Reprinted from the info-gcc mailing list.
“We are pleased to announce a new GCC maintainer. The EGCS
Steering Committee is taking over as the (collective) GNU
maintainer of GCC–and changing its name to the GCC Steering
Committee. The GNU maintainer of a package has the responsibility
for deciding what changes to install, fixing bugs, and making
releases.
“The development process for GCC will be essentially the same as
has been used for EGCS, and the EGCS CVS archive will become the
GCC CVS archive. Day-to-day technical details will be handled by
the release manager (currently Jeff Law) appointed by the steering
committee.
“We would like to thank Richard Kenner for his work as the GCC
maintainer for the 2.5.x through 2.8.x releases of GCC.”