Open letter from researchers involved in the “hypocrite commit” debacle

Re:Open letter from researchers involved in the “hypocrite c... by andreareina on Saturday April 24, 2021 @09:52PM (#26929708)

Or it's not in vengeance, but caution after the researchers have demonstrated that they put their needs above the community's. When the presumption of innocence is lost, it's appropriate to revert the patches until they are known to be good.

ETA: GKH on reverting the patches[1]

> This patchset has the "easy" reverts, there are 68 remaining ones that need to be manually reviewed. Some of them are not able to be reverted as they already have been reverted, or fixed up with follow-on patches as they were determined to be invalid. Proof that these submissions were almost universally wrong.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210421130105.1226686-1-gregkh...

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Re:Open letter from researchers involved in the “hypocrite c... by x3__ on Sunday April 25, 2021 @03:35AM (#26931010)

counterpoint: The LF Technical Advisory Board is taking a look at the history of UMN's contributions and their associated research projects. At present, it seems the vast majority of patches have been in good faith, but we're continuing to review the work. Several public conversations have already started around our expectations of contributors.

https://lwn.net/Articles/854064/

What the authors did is wrong, so did GKH actions. Let's be honest in calling BS out.

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