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Thursday, February 28th, 2019

    Time Event
    3:31a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 28, 2019
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 28, 2019 is available.
    2:57p
    Security updates for Thursday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (gpac, qemu, and sox), openSUSE (libqt5-qtbase), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-openjdk and java-11-openjdk), SUSE (bluez), and Ubuntu (nss and openssl, openssl1.0).
    5:35p
    [$] Core scheduling
    Kernel developers are used to having to defend their work when posting it
    to the mailing lists, so when a longtime kernel developer describes their
    own work as
    "expensive and nasty", one tends to wonder what
    is going on. The patch set in question is core
    scheduling     from Peter Zijlstra. It is intended to make simultaneous
    multithreading (SMT) usable on systems where cache-based side channels are
    a concern, but even its author is far from convinced that it should
    actually become part of the kernel.
    6:33p
    Why CLAs aren't good for open source (Opensource.com)
    Over at Opensource.com, Richard Fontana argues that contributor license agreements (CLAs) are not particularly useful or helpful for open-source projects. "Since CLAs continue to be a minority practice and originate from outside open source community culture, I believe that CLA proponents should bear the burden of explaining why they are necessary or beneficial relative to their costs. I suspect that most companies using CLAs are merely emulating peer company behavior without critical examination. CLAs have an understandable, if superficial, appeal to risk-averse lawyers who are predisposed to favor greater formality, paper, and process regardless of the business costs." He goes on to look at some of the arguments that CLA proponents make and gives his perspective on why they fall short.

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