moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoLinus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainerswww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square600fedilinkarrow-up11.08Karrow-down135
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minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·2 months agoRemoving people from CREDITS looks like someone should have been mindful before acting.
minus-square8uurg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoThey were removed from MAINTAINERS, which is what identifies the people responsible for maintaining a piece of code, a subsystem of Linux, not the credits, which is encoded in the git commit history.
Removing people from CREDITS looks like someone should have been mindful before acting.
They were removed from MAINTAINERS, which is what identifies the people responsible for maintaining a piece of code, a subsystem of Linux, not the credits, which is encoded in the git commit history.