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

Sergio Paracuellos
2024-10-23T15:05:00Z

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 10:20 AM Kexy Biscuit <kexybiscuit@aosc.io> wrote:
>
> This reverts commit 6e90b675cf942e50c70e8394dfb5862975c3b3b2.
>
> An absolutely no-one-ever-reviewed patch, not even by the maintainers who
> got removed themselves - at least not on the mailing list. Then the patch
> just got slipped into an unrelated subsystem pull request, and got pulled
> by Torvalds with not even a comment.
>
> What about the next time? Who next would be removed from the MAINTAINERS
> file, the kernel.org infrastructure? What if the compliance requires
> another XZ backdoor to be developed without further explanation? Is the
> kernel development process still done in public?
>
> Are the "compliance requirements" documented on docs.kernel.org? Who are
> responsible for them? Are all that are responsible employees of
> The Linux Foundation, which is regulated by the U.S. legislature?
>
> Fixes: 6e90b675cf94 ("MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements.")
> Signed-off-by: Kexy Biscuit <kexybiscuit@aosc.io>
> ---

Unbelievable...

Acked-by: Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@gmail.com>

Thanks,
Sergio Paracuellos