Heads up: Moving to a different email address for my Linux kernel/SELinux contributions

From: Ondrej Mosnacek

Date: Thu Sep 03 2026 - 07:37:03 EST


Due to certain upcoming changes to my employer's work laptop usage
policy, I'm being forced to more strictly separate my work-internal
vs. upstream/personal environments/identities and in relation to that
I'd like to transition to using my personal email
(omosnacek@xxxxxxxxx) for my future kernel/SELinux (or other upstream
community) contributions.

My work email address remains tied to me for the foreseeable future
and nothing really changes in terms of its abuse potential or
whatever, so nothing bad will happen if someone accidentally sends
anything upstream-related to this address (or continues an existing
thread), I'd just prefer to use the personal one as the default from
now on.

I'll soon send patches to update .mailmap and MAINTAINERS in the
kernel tree and SECURITY.md in the SELinux userspace repo accordingly.
My future git commits (e.g. on SELinux GitHub repos) will also start
to show my personal email address in the metadata + Signed-off-by.

Hopefully I didn't miss any important detail and the transition will be smooth.

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Ondrej Mosnacek
Senior Software Engineer, Linux Security - SELinux kernel
Red Hat, Inc.