The TAB report on the UMN affair

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board has issued its report on the submission of (intentionally and unintentionally) buggy patches from the University of Minnesota.

This report summarizes the events that led to this point, reviews the "Hypocrite Commits" paper that had been submitted for publication, and reviews all known prior kernel commits from UMN paper authors that had been accepted into our source repository. It concludes with a few suggestions about how the community, with UMN included, can move forward.

The recommendations include establishing an internal review process for patches submitted by the community and the creation (by the TAB in cooperation with researchers) of a "best practices" document for researchers working with the kernel community.

(LWN editor Jonathan Corbet played a small part in the writing of this report).

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