On Wed Feb 18, 2026 at 11:48 PM GMT, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote:
With all due respect to your work on drafting this, Lucas, I strongly
urge us not to go through with a GR on this topic yet. This is
something which both us and the larger free software community is
still actively debating, and a GR is a tool for when a decision is
ready to be made. Having a GR on this matter now is premature and
will be extremely divisive -- even schismatic.
Respectfully, I disagree that we shouldn't have a GR now, and I hope you
are wrong that it will be divisive and schismatic.
One reason to do this now: some may view the risks of accepting
AI/LLM/genAI-produced content into Debian (whether into packaged
software, or Debian Infrastructure, or elsewhere) to be unknown but we
may wish to avoid the damage of a "fruit of the poisoned tree" situation
further down the road. It may be safer to forbid some of these now, and
relax our position later, than to try to do the opposite.
(Note that this position is not yet reflected in any proposal or
counter-proposal that I have seen)
A GR need not be the end of a discussion. It can capture a project
position now, and be refined, reinforced or overturned by subsequent
work as we move forward, with the benefit of more data and experience.
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