Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements.

Mingcong Bai
2024-10-23T10:10:28Z

Greetings again (oops),

I messed up the reference levels when I sent my disclosure. Jiaxun got
most of the references right but the last sentence.

在 2024-10-23 17:53，Jiaxun Yang 写道：
> On 2024/10/23 09:26, Mingcong Bai wrote:
>> No, no, no. Nuh, uh.
>>
>> Greg has unfortunately decided to respond in private over a matter
>> that by no means should be glossed over. Here below is our
>> conversation:
>
> I can't believe a senior maintainer is breaking our agreed netiquette
> [1], but that's happening.
>
>> 在 2024-10-23 15:55，Greg KH 写道：
> [...]
>>
>> Request declined. Your response is now public knowledge (and hey, if
>> this is not by your will, my apologies). Again, this matter requires
>> public response.
>>
>>> 在 2024-10-23 14:30，WangYuli 写道： Although this commit has been merged,
>>> it's still important to know the
>>> specific reason (or even an example) that triggered this change for
>>> everyone here, right?
>>>
>>> And those maintainers who have been removed should be notified.
>>> Seconded.
>>
>> Sorry, but that's not how this is allowed to work.  Please contact
>> your
>> company lawyers if you have any questions about this.  And this only
>> affects maintainers, as you aren't listed in the MAINTAINERS file,
>> there
>> should not be any issue, but again, contact your company if you have
>> any
>> questions as they know what is going on.
>
> I think there are no regulations on earth preventing itself from being
> referenced.
> Even if the regulation prevents further communication with affected
> bodies,
> the wider community still deserves an explanation.
>
> As a person with M entries I found this behavior appalling. It shakes
> mutual
> trust between maintainers, as we all assumed that patches being applied
> are
> well scrutinized.
>
> Besides, many of us are working on kernel as hobbyist  in a personal
> capacity.
> That means we don't have access to lawyers, especially US one. While I
> understand
> corporate participants may be the majority of the community, please
> don't leave
> hobbyists behind!
>
> I've had some interactions with some of people being removed here, and
> I would
> say they are all brilliant individuals. It's  really sad to see them
> being turned away :-(
>
>>
>> Just *wink* if you were compelled into this.
> ^ It sounds unprofessional to me.

For the record, I wrote that unprofessional sentence ("Just *wink*"),
since it was private.

Best Regards,
Mingcong Bai

>
> Thanks
> - Jiaxun
>
> [1]: https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette-qw89
>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Mingcong Bai
>>