Comment by rzwitserloot

> I hope we hear from the IRB in about a year stating exactly what happened. Real investigations of bad conduct should take time to complete correctly and I want them to do their job correctly so I'll give them that time

That'd be great, yup. And the linux kernel team should then strongly consider undoing the blanket ban, but not until this investigation occurs.

Interestingly, if all that happens, that _would_ be an intriguing data point in research on how FOSS teams deal with malicious intent, heh.