UMN's contributions to the Linux kernel appear to be vastly in good faith. Our review is ongoing...
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Good faith will not be sufficient for UMN contributions to be accepted in the future, if maintainers just decide that it's not worth their time. I can think of at least two people sending bad enough patches that they were almost invariably not even reviewed.
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I'm sure they can figure out how to submit the changes from Gmail addresses. After all, that's how they submitted the patches for their much maligned study.
What I see are certain Linux kernel maintainers acting in bad faith, spreading misinformation and slandering students.
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I definitely don't think it's a good idea for students to be contributing to a project where they get slandered and have collective punishments imposed upon them for something they didn't do. Another reason to recommend that people do not contribute to the Linux kernel project.
Dealing with "I tricked you into taking a bad patch" is not a tolerable patch review environment. And when such contributions use an entire CS department for cover, then maintainers are forced to question all such contributions.
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Have they shown us their intentionally bad patch attempts? We think we found them, but confirmation would be nice. Seems like the easiest way to avoid anyone needing to wonder about all UMN contributions.
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