I got robbed of my first kernel contribution
My conclusion:<p>* It wouldn&#x27;t have hurt to give Ariel more credit with a `Co-Authored-By` instead of `Reported-By`, especially considering that the &#x27;report&#x27; came with a working code fix. If this form of credit is outside the typical Linux commit authoring norms, then maybe this is a good motivation to adjust them.<p>* Ariel should have <i>brought up the complaint about the Reported-By tag at the time</i> instead of letting his frustration and disappointment fester for a year then writing a blog post about it.<p>* The &quot;(paraphrased)&quot; maintainer response to asking for more credit feels off, and the formatting of the blog post is badly misleading. I&#x27;d much prefer a direct quote than a paraphrasing for something like this, where it&#x27;s important to have raw data for third parties (like everyone in this thread) to come to a valid judgement on this aspect.<p>* I can&#x27;t tell if this was communicated in private or if the response is contained in one of the links mentioned in this thread. In general the whole timeline is rather difficult to follow which doesn&#x27;t help.<p>Between this and the recent rust drama, I think we&#x27;re running face first into the biggest issue of text-only communication mediums: it&#x27;s really hard to communicate intent and feelings through text. You can dismiss that as silly human foibles, but the human shit <i>actually matters</i>. In person communication has such a higher bandwidth it&#x27;s insane, and if we&#x27;re going to continue pretending that we can replace it entirely with text, we will have to commit to a much higher level of transparency and candor than we&#x27;d feel comfortable with in person, else it will be harder than necessary to maintain community over the long run.