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What is a maintaner?
They're the people who take the code from thousands of developers, check it for errors, make sure there are no regressions, coordinate the code with the patches from other maintainers from further up and down the tree, and finally herd the patches toward the mainline, as well as manage backports.
It's essentially another term for developer, but a developer which maintains/administrates a project and analyzes, coordinates, and governs the patches (changes to code) that are applied to a project, especially a large one like Linux, Rust, Git, etc. where multiple maintainers are needed.
https://docs.kernel.org/maintainer/feature-and-driver-maintainers.html
So, banning maintainers who are russian means what in the long term? What were they contributing before?
This is the list of contributors that got removed according to a popular russian Linux web community.
So they're no longer allowed to do what in regards to these systems? Do they not have access anymore to the things they built? Or is it that now there's a russian "branch" of these and a not russian "branch" that they both have access to?
I'm literally in IT and I don't know this shit lol, such a dummy
Apparently they have just been removed from the MAINTAINERS file for now but it is not yet known if this will have any implications for their ability to send patches for inclusion in the kernel. If the latter proves to be the case, some of the drivers might end up unmaintained until another person gains enough trust to become a maintainer. This will surely affect support for the Russian BAIKAL processors, for example.
Apparently the removed contributors can return only if they provide some sort of "documentation" (not specified which though). They can still work on the kernel, but now they are not able to directly merge changes into the codebase, they can only send patches which may or may not be accepted. Or they could organise and create an independent Linux kernel fork which they would have to keep up to date by merging code from the upstream.
This much I understood from the news and comments.