On 28/07/26 3:01 pm, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andrea Pappacoda writes ("Re: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian"):
>> On Mon Jul 27, 2026 at 6:07 PM -03, Matthias Geiger wrote:
>>> Ians' proposal would exactly allow that: Per-team/per-repo decisions
>>> whether LLMs would be allowed in developing it. If e.g. the lintian
>>> team chose to disallow LLMs for all its contributions, that could be
>>> stated in the README etc.
>>
>> Does it? It allows "Moderators and disciplinary teams" to do so, such as
>> list masters. I don't read it as granting per-repo exeptions.
>
> Matthias's scenario is indeed covered by paragraph 6 of my proposal:
>
> 6. Individual projects and maintainers may ban LLM contributions
> completely. Such bans (including by upstream projects) must be
> respected.
>
> So lintian can set a stronger policy.
>
> You're perhaps thinking of 4a. That is a limited power for moderators
> to set weaker policy.
>
> My proposal does not allow individual projects to weaken the policy,
> only strengthen it. For example, the lintian[1] maintainers aren't
> allowed to write an exception into their README so they can reply to
> bug reports with LLM output.
I was instead looking for the opposite - i.e. allow individual projects
to be more permissive. I understand that your current proposal does not
allow that.
It may be good to have a provision to have individual projects or maintainer
teams to have policies of their own around AI, which could be different from
what is enforced on all projects in the project at large.
Best,
Nilesh
