Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools
might result in improvements and patches flowing back upstream. It looks like the answer here is an increasingly firm, but not because Russian developers aren't offering them. They are — but their efforts are being rebuffed.
This seems backward to us: the aim of sanctions is to impose additiuonal costs on the bad activities of hostile nations, or to cause them to reconsider their bad behavior. The aim is to make these countries better behaved andbehavior: it takes effort to share your code, and it benefits everyone with whom it is shared. Refusing code contributions because they are from aggressive actors does not hurt or hinder any Russian organization.
Marking a Git repository read-only doesn't stop anyone getting or using the code. The whole point of Git is that it's decentralized. An archived Github repository can still be cloned or forked, and developers can keep working on their local repositories, and sharing them with each other inside the country… or, of course, simply duplicate the code on a Russian-hosted site.
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