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

[Ondrej Mosnáček]

On Thu, 3 Sept 2026 at 13:29, Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Ondrej Mosnacek
> Senior Software Engineer, Linux Security - SELinux kernel
> Red Hat, Inc.

Acknowledging this from the new address as well.