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 15:43 UTC (Wed) by xinitrc (guest, #126452)
In reply to: It was EVERYONE who have .ru in their domain to be removed by kirr
Parent article: Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

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

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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...