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minus-square@joojmachine@lemmy.mllinkfedilink5•3 years agoI have no idea what happened, I just know it was brutal. Damn.
minus-square@otso@lemmy.mllinkfedilink19•3 years agoHot damn! I don’t know the specific patches, but according to the email (tl:dr;) a team at University of Minnesota was submitting patches they knew were broken to “test” how the kernel team responded. They had apparently published papers on it.
minus-squareSubversivoBlinkfedilink16•3 years agoLink tells whole story. They submitted buggy patches to see how devs would react and published a paper on it. Now, they submitted buggy patches again.
minus-square@joojmachine@lemmy.mllinkfedilink10•3 years agoSo they were being either extremely stupid or extremely rotten by keeping giving the kernel devs more work debugging bad code?
minus-squareSubversivoBlinkfedilink15•3 years agoGiving other work and making them look bad if they fail to spot errors to personal academic gains. Yes, extremely rotten. Don’t know how ethics committees work on US, but this is the thing that should never be allowed to pass them.
minus-square@otso@lemmy.mllinkfedilink7•3 years agoOh hey, yours went through as I was typing, my bad.
I have no idea what happened, I just know it was brutal. Damn.
Hot damn! I don’t know the specific patches, but according to the email (tl:dr;) a team at University of Minnesota was submitting patches they knew were broken to “test” how the kernel team responded. They had apparently published papers on it.
Link tells whole story. They submitted buggy patches to see how devs would react and published a paper on it. Now, they submitted buggy patches again.
So they were being either extremely stupid or extremely rotten by keeping giving the kernel devs more work debugging bad code?
Giving other work and making them look bad if they fail to spot errors to personal academic gains. Yes, extremely rotten.
Don’t know how ethics committees work on US, but this is the thing that should never be allowed to pass them.
Oh hey, yours went through as I was typing, my bad.
No problem, mate.