> "some Russian-sounding names are banned, but we still have to demonstrate there is a due process".
That's not true! There are still many Russian maintainers in the kernel, but they are not based in Russia. They only banned individuals, based in Russia, who are employed by sanctioned companies.
As a neighboring comment mentioned, at least one banned individual seems to be based in the US is employed by Amazon, as per their LinkedIn, including some old posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41933300
They just happened to still use their older .ru email in the MAINTAINERS file.
