Hi Ivan, I’m sorry to read that you feel I’m asking the anti-LLM folks to move. That is absolutely not what I wrote. I’m asking for mutual respect to ensure the conversation between community members progresses in a healthy way forward.
I’ve not written between the lines text, and will thus not apologize for those lines. My goal is written above. To make it more concrete why I am hammering on respectful and considerate communication, the following. There has been communication in the open that IMHO should have been more respectful and informed that has discredited a long time contributor who used LLM’s in close consultation with others in the project involved. They supported the efforts and experiment. All were aware that the experiment was an experiment and it was managed as such. I’ve tried to deliberately stay away from long proza to describe pros and cons of AI. That is a discussion I rather have a wider community bring in. As Seven just did and others do. I hope you can re-read my emails and see that my call remains the same. And I would apologize if I stuck my head in the sand and ignored the pivotal change AI brings to foss development. Cheers, Jeroen > On 8 Jul 2026, at 14:44, Iván Sánchez Ortega <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Jeroen, > > I disagree with your point of view, because (from where I'm sitting) it seems > biased. You say: > >> If you code with AI or review PRs, we want you involved and I invite you to >> start the conversation [...] > > Reading between the lines, it'd seem that people who do **not** use LLMs for > coding or reviews are not equally invited. The anti-LLM and LLM-skeptical > folks deserve the same voice as encouragement than the pro-LLM folks. I don't > think that's currently the case. > > >> If we lose respect and stop being a welcoming community, the harm >> lasts longer than any single PR. *We are in this together.* AI-assisted >> coding is here to stay, and it also opens doors, [...] > > You seem to be asking that the anti-LLM camp should show more respect towards > the pro-LLM camp, and I have to ask for the opposite. When a maintainer says > "no LLM PRs", the submitter should respect and welcome that. If we don't aim > for that, I bet that people are going to feel disrespected and burn out. > > > > -- > Iván Sánchez Ortega <[email protected]> https://ivan.sanchezortega.es > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
