On 2026-03-10, Michał Górny wrote: > The key problem is, how do we decide whether to package something or > not? We definitely don't have the capability of inspecting whatever > crap upstream may be committing. Of course, that was always a risk, but > with LLMs around, things are just crazy. And we definitely can't stick > with old versions forever. > > The other side of this is that I have very little motivation to put my > human effort into dealing with random slop people are pushing to > production these days, and reporting issues that are going to be met > with incomprehensible slop replies.
This may be off-topic, but I think Dmitry Bogatov perfectly summarized what it is to be a package maintainer in his short rant: https://kaction.cc/log/2022-01-01.1.html
