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Sounds like an (overt) attempt at getting all their contributions to come from a `@linux.ibm.com` account, which might make sense depending on what their arrang
by bevacqua 5y ago
Sounds like an (overt) attempt at getting all their contributions to come from a `@linux.ibm.com` account, which might make sense depending on what their arrangement with IBM is?
For example if IBM were paying them a full-time salary to maintain VNIC as a representative of IBM then it makes sense for IBM to ask for what they're paying for, or at least to not let them add "personal" contributions to the mix?
Source for my conjecture is:
> Lijun Pan <ljp@linux.ibm.com>
And:
> Lijun Pan <lijunp213@gmail.com>
So they want them to use the IBM email association all of the time
- mlyle 5y agoHere the issue is that he was an official contributor as part of an IBM team working on this driver for IBM hardware... and that IBM decided they did not want him to do this anymore. He then changed the maintainer file to point to his personal email.
- bevacqua 5y agoWhere'd you get that context from?
- mlyle 5y agoHis commit history.
- miga 5y agoWhich would indicate he is still available _for free_ to do the duty of reviewing the patches. Good open source citizen, if you ask me.
- mlyle 5y agoSetting up to do it outside of work as a "hobby" might still be being a good open source citizen, but it doesn't mean that IBM may not have some legitimate concerns. If there's e.g. a bad interpersonal situation on the team, IBM might not want him to interact with other members of that group anymore. Or, since he's likely handled proprietary IBM information relating to that hardware, ongoing work on the subsystem outside of an official capacity could be problematic.