Gloria Zhao (glozow): 2022-07-07 - presentt[11] Frequent contributor, given access after being nominated by several frequent contributors and maintainers to become a maintainer.
gloria zhao was not given it after being nominated by many contributors
if you check the github the maintainers just wrote "ack" like its a done deal, no explanations much of what she does that makes her worthy in their Ack (no promotional pitch to explain their opinion)
even though there were many contributors that had Nacks with explanations (though these were ignored)
her BOSS (yea she is paid by a company called brinks) fanquake.. who then helped gloria also get into brinks .. and then done the commit to sign her in as a maintainer.. (like it was a done deal)
maintainers are now mostly paid by 3 business brands chaincodelabs, brinks and blockstream
its worth knowing most funding of all 3 companies come from the same DCG group
the same corporation portfolio and dev pool(famous faces) sponsored to bring you the segwit/taproot features that altnets like liquid and LN want and need
(you know the ones. the ones that promise more onchain transaction counts but 5 years later no tx count rise)
(you kn ow the ones that want people to offramp utility to altnets)
in short it was a hierarchical top level maintainer vote to get her in..not a low level contributor vote by masses of independent contributors
its worth mentioning that Wlad (lead maintainer in recent years) and even achowe admit that bitcoin dev team of maintainers privilege is becoming more centralised and hierarchical
