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Public statement from LF Legal etc.?

Public statement from LF Legal etc.?

Posted Dec 17, 2024 14:17 UTC (Tue) by geert (subscriber, #98403)
Parent article: Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

Apparently the rationale for this was presented at the Maintainers Summit in Vienna, three months ago[1].
Unfortunately this was an invite-only event, and AFAIK the presentations/recordings are not publicly available. Also, that part was not covered by LWN.net[2].

Today, we are still waiting for:
1. A public statement from Linux Foundation Legal,
2. A patch series for Documentation/process on the workflows mailing list, to clarify the related process and guidelines,
3. A public apology to the people who were removed from the MAINTAINERS file in error.

Thank you!

[1] "Draft Agenda for the 2024 Maintainers Summit" https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240913125310.GA1706848@mit....
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/990740/


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Public statement from LF Legal etc.?

Posted Jan 31, 2025 13:08 UTC (Fri) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link]

GregKH just pointed me to a new Linux Foundation blog post:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/navigating-global-re...

TL;DR: a maintainer can accept a patch from a sanctioned entity, but not request more details, or suggest changes for a v2...


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