Hello,

There was a recent port that was made to Libreboot for the Dell Optiplex 9020 MT, and I was not properly credited for the work that I did. I made a pull request on Codeberg with my patch (github basically) and labeled it as ‘WIP’. Leah and I were working on this together during that time, and I was told to wait a week, so I did. Time passes and guess what? They closed off my patch and added it themselves a week later with no credit given to me.

I made the .ROM files for the 9020 MT motherboard, I tested them, and they didn’t work until Leah came in and resized the IFD and GBE regions. That was all that they did. Everything else, I did on my own, I added the entries in /vendor/sources for MRC/ME, and added it to lbmk. Leah is now refusing to accept my patch that’s fixed.

I’m not trying to steal all the glory from them, they did help, I just want partial credit for utilizing the port from coreboot gerit. This port was originally made in Coreboot by someone, so work mostly goes to them, but as for adding support for Libreboot, my name is completely left out. I just feel wronged because now they’re saying that I don’t deserve to have my name on this because I was too slow when I was only given a week and was literally told to wait during that time period, so I was kind of manipulated into waiting so that Leah could get the board herself and add it without ever including my name.

I spent a week working on this, and I let them know how significant this was to me, only to have my work shitted on and not properly credited. I’m now banned from IRC and Libreboot for talking about this on Mastadon. I’m just ranting because I feel like my work was just stolen. This is the most powerful desktop supported by Libreboot and now I’m left in the back pages where no one can see my name, which says ‘Provided testing hardware for the 9020 MT’ when I did much more than just testing. I was the one who made this port.

  • Borger@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    If I’m completely honest, after reading both your account and theirs, I don’t really understand why you’re this hung up about it.

    It’s almost like you care more about credit than a port that actually works. I know you weren’t done/that it was a WIP, and they told you to wait, but at the end of the day it’s open software, and literally anyone could have beaten you to it.

    I don’t think you’re wrong to feel that your efforts should have been represented more, but I honestly would have backed off like 10% through that conversation and just started working on something else. It’s not worth it man. I hope you can feel better about this whole situation soon.

    • KeriKitty (They(/It))@pawb.socialEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Kinda embarrassing how few people consider that Leah, though rude, may have ever had any kinda point. Like, apparently this person spent eight hours harassing them on IRC (which is mentioned in this thread, no need to actually go check anything for oneself before demonizing somebody!) but ohhh noooo getting banned from the IRC channel is horrible how could they do that! What a monster!

      Meanwhile, looks to me like everyone involved admits that, despite the libellous thread title, Leah Rowe did not steal this person’s work.

      tl;dr: In this thread people skim a rant from one of two sides, call the other a monster. Grr.

    • Lojcs@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      2024-02-26 18:33:38 lorenzo i had went out of my way to buy that board, let you know about that this was what i wanted to do
      2024-02-26 18:33:49 lorenzo i really wanted to see my name on adding this board

      They literally said they wanted to see their name by adding the board. It feels quite selfish to me to snatch the work a new contributor was doing just because they are ‘taking too long’ without contacting them first.

      Read the irc fully after writing that and it seems there was already communication between them, so it’s even weirder that such miscommunication occurred.

      On masto the maintainer wrote that op was harassing them and gave the irc log for proof, but the irc chat is peaceful until the end where the maintainer flips out about the masto post and accuses op of harassing on masto??

      The end of the irc log:

      2024-02-27 05:04:04 leah you have 2 choices
      2024-02-27 05:04:25 leah * stop going online and publicly harassing me - delete all posts about it. and i’ll delete my replies to your mastodon just now
      2024-02-27 05:04:48 leah * stop contributing to libreboot - i will refuse all patches from you, and i’ll ban you from #libreboot if you even raise a peep
      2024-02-27 05:05:02 leah i’ve tried to be nice but it ends here, and i will listen no further. i won’t have you harassing me.
      2024-02-27 05:05:11 leah yield to my authority, or fuck off. it’s your choice.
      2024-02-27 05:06:17 leah i could give in to you- whet you’re asking for is unreasonable, and the manner in which you ask is more like a threat than a request. if i give in to you now, you will try to harass/abuse me again in the future.
      2024-02-27 05:06:27 leah it’s your choice now. submit, or fuck off.

      It bites me that they call op harassing, threatening and abusive while threatening them of being banned if they talk publicly about it in the same breath. More adjectives from mastodon:

      Your kind of bullying, coercive and controlling behaviour is unwelcome either in my life or in my communities.

      Maybe ‘nagging’ could be an appropriate criticism, but the maintainer just looks out of it here. It’s also funny that they say “if i give in to you now, you will try to harass/abuse me again in the future” without realising that’s likely what op is also thinking at the moment