People required to comply
People required to comply
Posted Oct 25, 2024 3:34 UTC (Fri) by olof (subscriber, #11729)In reply to: People required to comply by Paf
Parent article: Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status
I am not a lawyer, and I am not in any way involved in any of this, but I don't see the differentiation as arbitrary myself:
A developer (or other maintainers) need to reach out and make contact with a maintainer when they are sending them code (or bug reports, etc). A developer submitting patches is posting on a public mailing list.
The direction of who is contacting who (and/or who is contacted in private vs on a public list) is possibly more relevant than whether a person is technically labeled a maintainer or contributor.