The TAB report on the UMN affair

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

This report summarizes the events that ledto this point, reviews the "Hypocrite Commits" paper that had beensubmitted for publication, and reviews all known prior kernel commits fromUMN paper authors that had been accepted into our source repository. Itconcludes with a few suggestions about how the community, with UMNincluded, can move forward.

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

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