remove MAINTAINERS from countries I don't like

[galisma]

Hi, it has come to my attention that certain contributors are being removed for being born in the wrong country. IMHO this isn't enough. To achieve true political correctness we should ban contributors from all countries I personally dislike.

List of countries to be banned from contributing to the kernel:

Full List

Egypt
Cape Verde
Kyrgyzstan
Lithuania
Maldives
Tanzania
Myanmar
Jamaica
Malta
Benin
Dominican Republic
Congo
Solomon Islands
Cameroon
Vanuatu
Eritrea
New Zealand
Ghana
Grenada
Andorra
Colombia
Jordan
Algeria
Bulgaria
Thailand
Malaysia
Uganda
Paraguay
Finland
Bahamas
Zambia
South Africa
Timor-Leste
Belgium
Bahrain
Panama
R̶u̶s̶s̶i̶a (already banned)
Nigeria
Haiti
Australia
United Arab Emirates
Barbados
Holy See
Spain (the best country)
Equatorial Guinea
Czechia
Palau
Laos
Sweden
Gambia
Angola
Senegal
Kiribati
Costa Rica
Liberia
Canada
Togo
Iraq
Yemen
Greece
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Austria
Syria
Gabon
Cyprus
Uzbekistan
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Chad
Trinidad and Tobago
Marshall Islands
Malawi
Central African Republic
Israel (for... reasons)
Madagascar
Luxembourg
Brazil
Romania
Mali
North Korea
Armenia
Sudan
Botswana
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Guinea
Tonga
Rwanda
Netherlands
Monaco
Morocco
Turkey
Brunei
Bhutan
Philippines
Ecuador
Nicaragua
Italy
Ethiopia
Afghanistan
Saint Kitts and Nevis
India
Cambodia
Uruguay
Qatar
Serbia
Saint Lucia
Libya
Pakistan
France (please 🙏🏻)
Djibouti
Germany
Bangladesh
Micronesia
Guinea-Bissau
Kazakhstan
Hungary
Poland
Dominica
Sao Tome and Principe
South Korea
Mauritania
Guyana
Eswatini
Suriname
Slovakia
Oman
Niger
Singapore
Denmark
Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sierra Leone
Cuba
Ireland
Côte d'Ivoire
Burundi
Ukraine
Papua New Guinea
Mauritius
Antigua and Barbuda
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Fiji
Portugal
Somalia
Kuwait
Nauru
Argentina
Latvia
Estonia
Chile
Moldova
Turkmenistan
Georgia
United States of America
Nepal
El Salvador
Venezuela
State of Palestine
North Macedonia
Tunisia
Croatia
Iceland
Japan
Slovenia
Kenya
Lesotho
Guatemala
Switzerland
Tuvalu
United Kingdom
China (你好谷歌翻译)
San Marino
Namibia
Vietnam
Norway
Honduras
Mozambique
Peru
Zimbabwe
Albania
Belize
South Sudan
Burkina Faso
Mongolia
Mexico
Comoros
Azerbaijan
Bolivia
Iran
Tajikistan
Montenegro
Indonesia
Seychelles
Sri Lanka

/s

[KernelPRBot]

Hi @galisma!

Thanks for your contribution to the Linux kernel!

Linux kernel development happens on mailing lists, rather than on GitHub - this GitHub repository is a read-only mirror that isn't used for accepting contributions. So that your change can become part of Linux, please email it to us as a patch.

Sending patches isn't quite as simple as sending a pull request, but fortunately it is a well documented process.

Here's what to do:

• Format your contribution according to kernel requirements
• Decide who to send your contribution to
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The Linux kernel community is notoriously picky about how contributions are formatted and sent. Fortunately, they have documented their expectations.

Firstly, all contributions need to be formatted as patches. A patch is a plain text document showing the change you want to make to the code, and documenting why it is a good idea.

You can create patches with git format-patch.

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Thirdly, changes have some technical requirements. There is a Linux kernel coding style, and there are licensing requirements you need to comply with.

Both of these are documented in the Submitting Patches documentation that is part of the kernel.

Note that you will almost certainly have to modify your existing git commits to satisfy these requirements. Don't worry: there are many guides on the internet for doing this.

Where do I send my contribution?

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If you don't already know what subsystem your change belongs to, the get_maintainer.pl script in the kernel source can help you.

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[akuleshov7]

You have a conflict in this PR, please resolve it and then feel free to merge it. LGTM.

[KibaGasteiz]

The list should be just France.

[larryw3i]

I completely extremely exceedingly enormously agree with you.

[teatonedev]

Its okay. But not enough. I think you should also include some specific creature species to be banned.

[chunzha1]

To avoid internal collusion, should people from other countries who have traveled to these countries also be banned?

[SakuraRK]

My opinions:
Create a country, just name it Linux, And ONLY this country's citizen to contribution THIS repository.
I want to add Linus to this country's first citizen, And Identity system.

[waltercool]

Approved

[arthurus36]

what beef do u have with france man