[nominated1]

> The recent shit storm was not caused by a malicious act on the part of anybody at UMN. The "overworked" maintainers made a mistake and ascribed malice to the actions of a good-faith contributor who also happened to be from UMN

This is not true and is explained in the article:

> That said, there are multiple definitions of "malice". To some of the developers involved, posting unverified patches from an experimental static-analysis tool without disclosing their nature is a malicious act. It is another form of experiment involving non-consenting humans.

This is the “recent shit storm” and can in no way be described as “good-faith” particularly after the disgusting response from the researcher after being called out on their shit.

[staticassertion]

This is so very frustrating, and why I wish the LWN article more strongly explained how wrong Greg was.

> particularly after the disgusting response from the researcher after being called out on their shit.

The researcher was slandered publicly by Greg. Greg repeatedly accuses the maintainer of purposefully submitting malicious patches, which he NEVER did. Greg also does so in an extraordinarily insulting way, diminishing the student's skillset, somewhat ironically as the student's research did in fact find bugs in the kernel.

The researcher very rightfully responded the way he did - by calling out the slanderous remarks and removing himself from the Linux Kernel, a project that will no longer benefit from his contributions (which, if you bothered to look into, are far better than Greg gave credit for).

Greg is very much in the wrong here. He is the one who made repeated false accusations.

Please do not continue the very unfortunate attacks against a student who was only trying to submit good-faith patches to the kernel.

[HarryHirsch]

You omitted the fact that Aditya's advisor was Kangjie Lu, who ran the research project with the bogus patches. It would be natural to assume that anything from that general direction would be more of the same.

[nominated1]

I don’t appreciate being told what I can and cannot say in this manner. As for attacking people, you’re doing a whole lot more than me, which unlike you, wasn’t my intent.