It’s WHAT?

So coMputer becomes coMEputer instead?

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.

This is the list of contributors that got removed according to a popular russian Linux web community.

• Abylay Ospan *@netup.ru, drivers for DVB-systems NETUP PCI, HELENE, ASCOT2E, HORUS3A, LNBH25 & CXD2841ER
• Alexander Shiyan *@mail.ru, port for ARM/CIRRUS LOGIC CLPS711X
• Dmitry Kozlov *@mail.ru, PPTP and GRE DEMULTIPLEXER drivers
• Dmitry Rokosov *@sberdevices.ru, EMSENSING MICROSYSTEMS MSA311 driver
• Evgeniy Dushistov *@mail.ru, UFS file system
• Ivan Kokshaysky *@jurassic.park.msu.ru, Alpha architecture loty
• Nikita Travkin *@trvn.ru, ACER ASPIRE 1 controller drivrer
• Serge Semin *@gmail.com, BAIKAL-T1 platform, base drivers for MIPS systems, drivers for BAIKAL-T1 PVT, DESIGNWARE EDMA CORE IP, LIBATA SATA AHCI SYNOPSYS DWC CONTROLLER, NTB IDT, SYNOPSYS DESIGNWARE APB GPIO, SYNOPSYS DESIGNWARE APB SSI
• Sergey Kozlov *@netup.ru, drivers for DVB-systems NETUP PCI, ASCOT2E, HORUS3A, LNBH25 и& CXD2841ER
• Sergey Shtylyov *@omp.ru, drivers for LIBATA PATA, RENESAS R-CAR SATA, RENESAS SUPERH ETHERNET & RENESAS ETHERNET AVB
• Vladimir Georgiev *@metrotek.ru, MICROCHIP POLARFIRE FPGA driver

I actually find Rust pretty OK. The only things that I don’t like about Rust is its quirky syntax. And its primitive implementation of OOP. And its compiler. And cargo. And the ecosystem…

OK well maybe I don’t find Rust actually OK. Why did we have to invent a whole new language if we could improve standards and compilers for existing languages?

Regardless of political subtext, I found Master and Margarita a fun read. Nevertheless, Heart of a Dog of the same author was not pleasant to read.

Soviet literature was not worse than the works of pre-Revolution authors and ranged across many genres, from socialistic realism works to fantasy (Soviet sci-fi was great) and also many children books that are loved till this day. Unfortunately, same with other kinds of works, Soviet literature is disregarded by the West, as are many works that don’t conform to the Western values.