> It's entirely clear why the change was done
It's not clear to me. There is no guideline or rules about the remove, and there is no evidence that those maintainers violating the rules. So that's basically executing someone because they're likely to be a murder?
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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/linus_torvalds_affirms_expulsion_of/
> As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.
So those Russian developers are the key to the Russian's aggression? And they invaded Finland in the last century too?
At least I won't randomly ban Japanese developers and mentioning Japan once invade China during WWII.
