I do not follow Kernel Dev enough to have a good representation of what happened, but it seems to me that it was another example of smart people pushed out. Nowadays I think he is just maintaining his patches from one kernel release to the next, it was smart for Con to stop interacting with them and move to other types of devs, it comes a point where you have to keep your sanity.

I remember the whole debacle back then when the lkml was summarized on that website I can't remember

It'd be interesting to see if that branch exhibit the same behavior and issues.

Maybe KernelTrap? I was sad when it shut down, it was a very useful resource for following Linux development from the sidelines.

Yeah that one! The memories.

You might be thinking of LWN. They covered the scheduler multiple times over the years: https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Scheduler