And seriously, Rahul Sundaram is hardly a "third party person". He's one
of the active maintainers of systemd package, which you can easily
check in the pkgdb, as well as your colleague from Red Hat.
But even if he was, it should hardly matter. He made a bug report
providing the necessary justification (quoting upstream manpage), and
it should make no difference whether he is active in other areas
or if that bug report was his first contribution to Fedora.