It was EVERYONE who have .ru in their domain to be removed [LWN.net]

It was EVERYONE who have .ru in their domain to be removed

Posted Oct 23, 2024 13:28 UTC (Wed) by kirr (guest, #14329)
Parent article: Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

~/src/linux/linux$ git checkout 6e90b675cf94~

~/src/linux/linux$ grep '\.ru>' MAINTAINERS
M: Nikita Travkin <nikita@trvn.ru>
M: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
M: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru>
M: Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@mail.ru>
R: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>
M: Sergey Kozlov <serjk@netup.ru>
M: Abylay Ospan <aospan@netup.ru>
M: Sergey Kozlov <serjk@netup.ru>
M: Abylay Ospan <aospan@netup.ru>
M: Abylay Ospan <aospan@netup.ru>
M: Sergey Kozlov <serjk@netup.ru>
M: Abylay Ospan <aospan@netup.ru>
M: Sergey Kozlov <serjk@netup.ru>
M: Abylay Ospan <aospan@netup.ru>
M: Sergey Kozlov <serjk@netup.ru>
M: Abylay Ospan <aospan@netup.ru>
M: Dmitry Rokosov <ddrokosov@sberdevices.ru>
R: Vladimir Georgiev <v.georgiev@metrotek.ru>
M: Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@mail.ru>
R: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>
R: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>
R: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>
M: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>

~/src/linux/linux$ git checkout 6e90b675cf94

~/src/linux/linux$ grep '\.ru>' MAINTAINERS
# the output is empty

details: https://git.kernel.org/linus/6e90b675cf94

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It was EVERYONE who have .ru in their domain to be removed

Posted Oct 23, 2024 15:43 UTC (Wed) by xinitrc (guest, #126452) [Link] (5 responses)

How can you judge someone by having their email in .ru zone?
It is not very smart

It was EVERYONE who have .ru in their domain to be removed

Posted Oct 23, 2024 15:47 UTC (Wed) by xinitrc (guest, #126452) [Link] (3 responses)

-LIBATA SATA AHCI SYNOPSYS DWC CONTROLLER DRIVER
-M: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
-L: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
-S: Maintained
-T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dlemoal/libata.git
-F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/baikal,bt1-ahci.yaml
-F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/snps,dwc-ahci.yaml
-F: drivers/ata/ahci_dwc.c

And what about this one? You have taken a single pattern but ignore the whole picture.

It was EVERYONE who have .ru in their domain to be removed

Posted Oct 23, 2024 16:11 UTC (Wed) by sub2LWN (subscriber, #134200) [Link] (2 responses)

That was the sole exception from the original patch (removing a maintainer with a non-RU domain email). Maybe it's related to this from last year, "We don't feel comfortable accepting patches from or relating to hardware produced by your organization." https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230314103316.313e5f61@kerne... If that's in fact the same person with this other email (RU domain) address. Searching for the company name and "sanctions", their contributions may be associated with a company under sanctions, if that's what this is ultimately about.

It was EVERYONE who have .ru in their domain to be removed

Posted Nov 5, 2024 18:08 UTC (Tue) by sammythesnake (guest, #17693) [Link] (1 responses)

Baikal Electronics (apparently Serge's employer...?) is on the list: https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=39178

It was EVERYONE who have .ru in their domain to be removed

Posted Nov 6, 2024 14:12 UTC (Wed) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link]

Bankrupted in 2023. No idea what happened with the remnants. The website is still up.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/russian-chipmaker-baika...

It was EVERYONE who have .ru in their domain to be removed

Posted Oct 24, 2024 19:14 UTC (Thu) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link]

I think the part before .ru is the more relevant. For example, working for NetUP vs just being in Russia.

And it is not just the US as practically every comment in this thread seems to state.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions-aga...

It was EVERYONE who have .ru in their domain to be removed

Posted Oct 25, 2024 12:47 UTC (Fri) by aposimz (guest, #173480) [Link]

MailRu Group is in SDN list, however nearly everyone in Russia has @mail.ru address. That's like having @gmx.net mailbox for a German, it doesn't show any affiliation of those individuals with MailRu Group.

Besides, trvn.ru domain is a personal domain with just "Hello!" on the main page, I don't think it is in SDN list. How does this work then?

I think they just decided to carpet-bomb the whole thing, just so there are no concerns in the future. There's no legal entity to protect Russians, and their own government is not interested in that, so that's quite safe thing to do from a legal standpoint.

It was EVERYONE who have .ru in their domain to be removed

Posted Nov 6, 2024 14:12 UTC (Wed) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link]

Abylay Ospan has been reinstated in v6.12-rc6.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/...