+1 a good start
Brst regards Alin On Sat, 21 Feb 2026, 08:24 Tomek CEDRO, <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 :-) > > Looks like we have a good reference point, and we may include this > part to NuttX Contributing Guide? > > """ > Restrictions on Generative AI Usage > > We expect authentic engagement in our community. > > Do not post output from Large Language Models or similar generative AI > as comments on GitHub or our discourse server, as such comments tend > to be formulaic and low content. > > If you use generative AI tools as an aid in developing code or > documentation changes, ensure that you fully understand the proposed > changes and can explain why they are the correct approach. > > Make sure you have added value based on your personal competency to > your contributions. Just taking some input, feeding it to an AI and > posting the result is not of value to the project. To preserve > precious core developer capacity, we reserve the right to rigorously > reject seemingly AI generated low-value contributions. > > In particular, it is also strictly forbidden to post AI generated > content to issues or PRs via automated tooling such as bots or agents. > We may ban such users and/or report them to GitHub. > """ > > What I also really really like in that Matplotlib's Contributing Guide > is the "difficulty" Issues label! We may mark tasks/todos as the > github issues, as we do currently, but assign "difficulty" label for > them, so we could redirect newcomers to solve "easy" issues in the > first place to see how they work. This should eliminate completely new > people taking complex tasks without understating the basics and > potentially breaking stuff as we see recently. This would also > eliminate new people showing up with invented long term tasks just to > get GSoC but knowing noting about NuttX and having no prior > experience, etc. This would help onboard new people, get them familiar > with the project internals, contributing process, and we could have > tasks solved step by step :-) > > -- > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 5:03 AM Matteo Golin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Separate from the other thread: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14332.html > > And starting fresh from the previous discussion: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14173.html > > > > I would like to propose the adoption of Matplotlib's AI policy [1] on > > NuttX. I believe it is a pretty reasonable middle-ground where: > > - Completely AI-generated PRs (code/descriptions) and comments via > > automated tooling, or in other words, slop, is not allowed on any > > repository/official communication channel of the project > > - Use of generative AI to aid coding, documentation writing, etc. is > > allowed but comes with the caveat that the contributor must understand > > their change and should have added some value with their personal > competency > > - Reserves the right to reject low-effort, AI-generated contributions > > > > [1]: > > > https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/devel/contribute.html#restrictions-on-generative-ai-usage > > > > Let me know what you think, > > Matteo >
