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 This port was originally made in Coreboot by someone, so work mostly goes to them, but as for adding support for Libreboot, my name is completely left out.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.
I wasn’t told that I had a week, I asked Leah for help and they told me to give them week, so I waited. Then my patch was closed off ‘accidently’ where they then just added it themselves and took all the credit.
Yes, you mentioned that multiple times in your communication with Leah.
However, we have no way of confirming the patch they use is the same one that you submit (have you submited? from communication it sounds like you have a week to provide a patch and then they just patch it themselves).
They recreated my patch from scratch and submitted it
From what I’ve read so far your code was too buggy, Leah then rewrote it (from scratch, as you just said) and then submitted her own code. What’s the problem? You even got a “All round good guy” on the contrib page (Also: Hi Brodie :))
Yes, but I was told to wait a week, and then once I waited they added it themselves. Which I think is wrong because telling me to wait just allowed them to commit there own patch before I was able to. OH GOD PLEASE DONT TELL ME BRODIE ROBERTSON IS REPORTING THIS?