Re: [PATCH net] MAINTAINERS: update

[Lijun Pan]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 6:40 PM <patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master):
>
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:25:25 -0500 you wrote:
> > I am making this change again since I received the following instruction.
> >
> > "As an IBM employee, you are not allowed to use your gmail account to work
> > in any way on VNIC. You are not allowed to use your personal email account
> > as a "hobby". You are an IBM employee 100% of the time.
> > Please remove yourself completely from the maintainers file.
> > I grant you a 1 time exception on contributions to VNIC to make this
> > change."
> >
> > [...]
>
> Here is the summary with links:
>   - [net] MAINTAINERS: update
>     https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/4acd47644ef1


In the past 8 months I have received many emails from you, asking me
about my current status. I am sorry that I did not have a chance to
answer all of them.

The most questions being asked were “Are you still with IBM? Did they
restore you to the previous job?”. I think I can answer these
questions now. I am not with IBM anymore. I was terminated this month.
I wasn’t able to work on ibmvnic since June, even as a hobby, which
you can figure out from the mailing list traffic. The last 8 months
was tough for me. But I am very thankful to all of you for your
kindness and support.

I will be celebrating the holiday with my family for the rest of the
year. I would be happy to find something worth my time (vs. arguing
about the open source way of doing things with an entity). I would
rather just have a break and relax myself than do something completely
mundane for another company. Thank you in advance for any connections,
advice or opportunities that you can offer.

I have been working on open source projects for 10 years. And I
believe that an entity who truly embraces open source, directs the
engineering work in the open source way, but not just takes open
source as a marketing strategy, will at the end greatly benefit from
the open source community, either in attracting top talent or in
delivering high quality code.

Merry Christmas to You and Your Family!
Lijun