couple things

1. ) lightning, as critics are keen to point out, is not bitcoin. it is one of several second layer protocols being proposed. lightning was created by Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja nether of which are at blockstream
2. Rusty Rusell has no commit rights to bitcoin proper or bips repo and submited a single bip since being employeed at blockstream and working on lebsec256k1 https://github.com/rustyrussell/secp256k1