Balkanization -- full steam ahead

Posted Oct 23, 2024 5:11 UTC (Wed) by s_vlad (guest, #120162)
In reply to: Balkanization -- full steam ahead by yeltsin
Parent article: Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

Interestingly, other comments miss the point.
The post I'm replying to is authored by "yeltsin".
That's exactly the figure in post-Soviet russia in 1992, who declared strategic alliance with China. And the post appeals to Chinese friends...
The original Yeltsin died in 2007. So this is the case of mummies' return!

I'd say "I hope our Chinese friends take note" from the post I'm replying to can even be seen as a threat!!!

The post I'm replying too also mentions "maintainers", which invokes memories of XZ from not too long ago...

Balkanization -- full steam ahead

Posted Oct 23, 2024 7:44 UTC (Wed) by riking (subscriber, #95706) [Link] (2 responses)

It's also clearly the highest / newest subscription # on the page.

Balkanization -- full steam ahead

Posted Oct 23, 2024 8:23 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeltsin has been around for a while. I don't know when I first noticed him, but it's a good long time.

(Disclaimer - I may be a russophile, but I am no fan whatsoever of their leadership ...)

And while I don't particularly understand Russian names (I understand they emphasise patronymics over surnames), Yeltsin could easily be a fairly common name?

Cheers,
Wol

Balkanization -- full steam ahead

Posted Oct 23, 2024 9:11 UTC (Wed) by dottedmag (subscriber, #18590) [Link]

Yeltsin is quite uncommon surname — beyond the Russia's 1st president and his family there don't seem to be any public figures bearing this surname, and a cursory check at https://forebears.io/surnames/eltsyn makes it _very_ uncommon.

(for the reference, I was born in USSR in 1983)