Russian Flag in Readme

> "Why not? I am Russian citizen and I support my country."

Did they not support their country until a few days ago?

One problem with such political gestures is that they have even less nuance than a tweet, which makes it easy for people to misunderstand the point being made (and also easy for others to deliberately misrepresent what is being said).

Perhaps like a README or LICENSE file, we need a POLITICS file that maintainers can put in their repo to list which countries and policies they support, to avoid any ambiguity. The absurdity of that idea, though, suggests that the only winning move is not to combine national politics with international software projects.

Pretty civil discussion as far as the Internet goes.

It's sometimes nice to have a break from politics when programming, but it's the author's choice what they want to do with their repo. It can always be forked and maintained elsewhere if there's interest.

The Russian flag isn't Putin's exclusive flag; the Russians who don't support Putin and the war do not have a different flag from that one. A national symbol such as a flag isn't simply some signal of agreement with something that is happening.

> how would a Ukrainian dev feel having his project showcased in this list, under the Russian flag?

In any number of ways depending on their attitude, and in some cases, it might not be enough not to have the flag there; the dev in question might simply not want their work to be aggregated in a Russian's link farm repo, period.