Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted
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Re: Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted
#2Just to make things clear, Phoronix said they are being "delisted".
No, they have actually been banished, because if you're not a maintainer of some Linux kernel subsystem, Linus Torvalds stops accepting merge requests from you. You need to go through an actual maintainer first.
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#3Related:
Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status
Re: Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted
#4Is this being done as a sanction against Russia or because it is feared that the Russian government would get some rogue developers to submit code to the kernel that enables attacks?
Individual Russian programmers are not responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, so I would be reluctant to punish them for Putin's crime and to deprive Linux of their contributions.
Re: Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted
#5Is this being done as a sanction against Russia or because it is feared that the Russian government would get some rogue developers to submit code to the kernel that enables attacks? Individual Russian programmers are not responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, so I would be reluctant to punish them for Putin's crime and to deprive Linux of their contributions.
> I would be reluctant to punish them for Putin's crime and to deprive Linux of their contributions.
They can still contribute to Linux - being removed as a maintainer doesn't mean you can't fork Linux. If they have downstream changes they want to contribute to everyone upstream, there is nothing here preventing them from doing it the same way everyone else does.
Re: Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted
#6> If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian
state-sponsored spam.
> As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.
Re: Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted
#7Just to make things clear, Phoronix said they are being "delisted". No, they have actually been banished, because if you're not a maintainer of some Linux kernel subsystem, Linus Torvalds stops accepting merge requests from you. You need to go through an actual maintainer first.
Much ado about nothing. There's a list of maintainers. Being delisted means you're not on the list.
If you're not a maintainer you cant maintain the kernel. D'oh.
You should not be demanding charged language just because it elicits an emotional reaction.
Re: Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted
#8The article is a snapshot of the discussion that's still happening on the mailing list.
Linus later responded with:
>No, but I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to go into the details that I - and other maintainers - were told by lawyers.
>I'm also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them.
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