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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by steveklabnik on Saturday June 19, 2021 @11:56AM (#27561585)
Google employs a few people who have a commit bit, but they are handed out via consensus among the whole team, not by a single company or its employees.
Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by grumblenum on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:59AM (#27570027)
Right, and at one point the whole team were all or mostly Mozilla employees (which, financially, is a client company of Google). So the core team is a group of Mozilla alumni and their friends. Unlike, say, C++ which is under diverse committees across multiple countries.