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It is really making my hairs stand up in anger. It is something that should not happen in any kind of university.

Normally if the researchers just wanted to test out this kind of codes, they should commit code changes only to their own fork and then conduct the testing there, and should not request merging their commits to the master working branch at all.

Agreed.They are intentionally breaking the opensource community.If the want a test of their skills just do it in their sandbox not in public environment.There are jokes that saying progarmmers is the kind that making another bug after fixing this one - but it is just joke.If you made a bug that just shows your skills but if you deliberately submitting a bug you reveal your evilness.

And now they get themself banned - I believe not all the students took part in the experiment,but seems the good guys might must use their personal accounts on github.