> In private email, and
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8886#issuecomment-494624313 the
implication is that this was a policy.
AFAIK this is not the case.
Is the comment wrong, either factually or because it is implementing something
that isn't an official policy?
> In the case of the fellows, they
represent the project directly so there can be no conflict.
The OMC represents the project not individual fellows. Fellows are employees
of the OMC. Therefore there can be conflicts. A hypothetical example, some
hires a fellow or two to port OpenSSL to a new unique platform, not currently
supported. The OMC doesn't want to support this platform, but it ends up in the
source.
I encourage the OMC to consider this question carefully.
