patching the Linux kernel - EMACS at CO

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The “Eudyptula Challenge” trains participants to successfully do this action. A June 2021 e-mail by Qu Wenruo attacked useless examples of this action as “KPI grabbing”, citing examples by Huawei employees. The “Developer’s Certificate of Origin” was introduced as an alternative to a CLA that has to be signed by people doing this action. (15[1])Due to researchers’ ill-conceived ideas of “hypocrite commits”, the entire University of Minnesota was (*) banned from this action in April (10[1]-5[1])2021. After a conflict with BitKeeper in 2005, both Mercurial and Git were originally created for this specific action. This action might involve e-mailing one (10[1])of hundreds of “maintainers” with your device driver patches, though particularly important reviews go to Linus Torvalds. For 10 points, name this action that improves the open-source core component of operating systems like Android and Ubuntu. ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: patching the Linux kernel [accept any answer that suggests contributing to or submitting changes to or developing for the Linux kernel; prompt on partial answers like “contributing to Linux” with “what part of Linux?”; prompt on “contributing to open source projects” with “what project?”]

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= Average correct buzz position

Conv. %	Power %	Average Buzz
75%	25%	74.67

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Ashvin Srivatsa	Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping	Dianetics for Diabetics	53	15
Corry Wang	a neural-net processor; a thinking machine	We Bought a Complexity Zoo Story	73	-5
Dan Ni	playing emacs while my parents are arguing	Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins	73	10
Henry Cafaro	screaming into the public static void main(String[] args)	Macro Editors	98	10
Kevin Ye	We Bought a Complexity Zoo Story	a neural-net processor; a thinking machine	135	0