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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 (15[1])(*) banned from this action (10[1])in April 2021. (10[1])After a conflict with BitKeeper (10[1])in 2005, both Mercurial and Git were originally created for this specific action. This action might involve e-mailing one 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■

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