De : Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> À : Pierre-Elliott Bécue <[email protected]> Cc : [email protected] Date : 23 juil. 2026 09:19:20 Objet : Re: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian
> Hi, > > On 22/07/26 at 19:30 +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'd like to offer a ballot option for this GR. It's inspired by the >> Linux AI assistant policy. I'm very open to comments and rewrites. >> >> I'm not sure I want this GR to be implemented in a founding document, so >> for now, unlike Matthias's proposal, I'd like my ballot option to stand >> on its own rather than modifying a document whose future updates would >> require a 3:1 majority. > > While I would vote this ballot option above FD, I think I prefer the one > I proposed because I think that a GR should focus on discussing the > general policy/spirit, not implementation details that can be fleshed > out later once the general policy is decided. > > Specifically: > >> + all Signed-off-by tags and GPG signatures on anything submitted to >> Debian infrastructure (package, commit, mail, …) have been produced >> by the submitter, not by an AI assistant; >> + commits have been pushed and packages uploaded by the submitter, >> not by an AI assistant. > > This adds arbitrary restrictions to personal workflows. What is the > problem with asking a local agent to commit and push to a branch (so > that it can later fetch and analyze salsa CI results)? > >> - Work assisted by a generative AI agent or tool must be marked as such >> with an "Assisted-by: AGENT:MODEL:VERSION[:TOOL]" trailer in the >> appropriate place (commit message, changelog, …). Some lightweight >> generative tools, such as tab-completion in Copilot, may be used >> without the contributor realising they rely on generative AI models; >> we therefore trust submitters to assess when this rule applies. When >> in doubt, add the trailer. > > I don't think that this level of detail should be specified in a GR. > > Lucas Hello, On the contrary, I think a broad policy without implementation is an open door to chaos. I don't consider reasonable to allow an LLM to push on a repo from which work can be extracted into a distro used by millions and core to a big chunk of the world ecosystem. You are of course entitled to a different opinion. Bests, -- Pierre-Elliott Bécue
