Comment by wjertyj
4 years ago
They do if the patch "looks good" to the right people.
In late January I submitted a patch with no prior contributions, and it was pushed to drm-misc-next within an hour. It's now filtered it's way through drm-next and will likely land in 5.13.
But your signed-off-by was a correct email address with your real identity, as per:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
Right? It's true that all systems can be gamed and you could no doubt fool the right maintainer to take a patch from a fraudulent source. But the point is that it's not as simple as this grad student just resubmitting work under a different name.
> But your signed-off-by was a correct email address with your real identity, as per
Maybe?
My point with the above comment was more to point out that there is no special '"presumptive good faith" pass' that comes along with a .edu e-mail address, not that it's possible to subvert the system (that's already well known).
Everyone, including some random dude with a Hackers (1995) reference for an e-mail address (myself) gets that "presumptive good faith" pass.