Recent news sent shockwaves through the open-source community when Greg Kroah-Hartman, a senior Linux kernel leader, announced his decision to remove several Russian Linux maintainers due to “various compliance requirements.” Kroah-Hartman noted that maintainers could return if sufficient documentation is provided.
It would help if Torvalds actually explained specifically what was going on instead of being rude and needlessly combative, but at this point I don’t actually expect better from him.