Hi, On 22/07/26 at 17:35 +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote: > > Hi all, > > What follows is a GR proposal to ban LLM contributions. > > It is time for Debian to make a statement regarding generative AI and LLM > usage. > Since this has been discussed in exhaustive detail on -private and -project, > the proposal follows below without any further discussion. > > > BEGIN PROPOSAL > > > Preamble > =========== > > This proposal aims to expressly forbid any contributions to Debian written > with > the use or assistance of large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI > tools. > > The scope of this GR is (non-exhaustive): - Debian source packages > - Official Debian project software, such as lintian
You should probably add here "or Debian infrastructure software" For context, most of my recent Debian contributions on infrastructure software were AI-assisted, including debaudit.debian.net, various changes to udd.debian.org (duck importer and dashboard, salsa importer and dashboard, reproducibility dashboard), and various changes to trends.debian.net. I understand that all of those would not be welcomed under this policy, but I believe that this desserves explicit clarification since Debian infrastructure software is an area where the Debian project does a lot of software development. > - Debian web resources - Documentation and translations added by Debian > contributors > - Official communication from Debian And maybe also: - Bug reports and other communications between developers For context, I've had rather successful experiments with using AI to analyze bugs and build better reports. A recent example is #1142332. Again, I suppose that this is not acceptable from your point of view, but believe that explicit clarification is useful. Lucas
