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No one’s discussing that, and I think that’s the most valuable question of all. Was this experiment so worthwhile that it ought to have been approved? Or was th
by floatingatoll 6y ago
No one’s discussing that, and I think that’s the most valuable question of all. Was this experiment so worthwhile that it ought to have been approved? Or was the experiment itself so irrelevant that ethical compliance or not, it shouldn’t have needed doing? Is random testing of gatekeepers an appropriate process in Linux development?
- cycomanic 6y agoActually I think this is a very good point you're raising. Maybe the kernel community has a whole should consider a way of checking their processes. Now randomly submitting buggy patches is probably not the right way, but there very well might be some interesting research (on the processes) that could be done. So maybe a document that laid out what would be acceptable and what not could be helpful.