The problem is not everyone agrees on what exactly "editorialized" and "credible" means. You're making the same arguments they would make against you.
refalo
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I think you could argue the same point with C++
the number of "women for trump" bumper stickers I see daily are astounding.
you must be fun at parties
you can't know that
I think that entire comment is actually incorrect. My understanding is that they did not "remove" any maintainers, but actually rejected patches from Russian citizens (because of their employer), and also removed some Russian names from the maintainers list who already have code in the kernel.
That doesn't invalidate my statement though.
freedom TO vs freedom FROM
I was more referring to mainline specifically, otherwise your chances of having many people actually benefit from your changes without a lot of effort is small IMO.
much like codes of conduct I feel like it's a false flag to handwave bad moderation using questionable interpretations of subjective terminology.