Intentionally buggy commits for fame

Intentionally buggy commits for fame—and papers

Posted Apr 24, 2021 7:49 UTC (Sat) by gregkh (subscriber, #8)
In reply to: Intentionally buggy commits for fame—and papers by roc
Parent article: Intentionally buggy commits for fame—and papers

No one has apologized to me, or the Linux kernel community, for putting me, and everyone else, in an "experiment" to detect if we can properly notice "known broken" patches or not.

Where did you see an apology to me and everyone else?

Intentionally buggy commits for fame—and papers

Posted Apr 27, 2021 3:18 UTC (Tue) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]

I was referring to this: https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc.pdf

> I apologize for the misleading abstract which did not show the details and caused many confusions and misunderstandings.

> Throughout the study, we honestly did not think this is human research, so we did not apply for an IRB approval in the beginning. We apologize for the raised concerns. This is an important lesson we learned---Do not trust ourselves on determining human research; always refer to IRB whenever a study might be involving any human subjects in any form.

> We would like to sincerely apologize to the maintainers involved in the corresponding patch review process; this work indeed wasted their precious time.

> * The work taints the relationship between academia and industry
> We are very sorry to hear this concern.