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University of Minnesota researchers issue apology letter to the Linux community
Apr 25, 2021 04:18 EDT with 3 comments
The University of Minnesota (UMN) researchers - Kangjie Lu, the Assistant Professor, and Qiushi Wu, Aditya Pakki, the Ph.D. students - have on Saturday issued an open apology letter seeking to bury the hatchet with the Linux community for the things which had led to the events that took place a few days back.
One of the lead Linux kernel developers and maintainers, Greg Kroah-Hartman put the ban-hammer on the UMN for intentionally putting forward buggy patches into the Linux kernel. The researchers from the UMN were conducting a study related to the security vulnerability of Open-source software, which in this case, is Linux. However, Greg K-H was very unhappy as the researchers seemed to proceed without really seeking permission before doing so, nor before running questionable patches on the Linux kernel even after the research paper
iTWire Monday, 26 April 2021 06:55 Uni bid to patch up with Linux kernel project fails to move maintainer Featured Image by MasterTux from Pixabay
The maintainer of the stable Linux kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, has snubbed an effort by a group at the University of Minnesota to get back in his good graces, after the group submitted known buggy patches to him in order to write a paper based on it.
The two students who wrote
the paper Kangjie Lu and Qiushi Wu and their instructor, Aditya Pakki,
sent an open letter to the Linux community on 24 April, apologising for what they had done and claiming that they had noble goals for doing so.
iTWire Thursday, 22 April 2021 08:46 Uni group slammed over submitting known buggy patches to Linux kernel Featured Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay
A group from the University of Minnesota have come in for a tongue-lashing from the normally mild-mannered Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, the maintainer of the stable kernel.
Kroah-Hartman blew up after the group submitted patches to the kernel which were known to be buggy.
He said in
a post addressed to Aditya Pakki at the university that he, and his group, had sent the buggy patches to see how the kernel community would react, and put out a paper based on that.