Hi Ludo,
On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 at 17:36, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. The project (defined as maintainers, team members, and anyone with
> write access to a Guix repository, including Weblate, or to Guix
> resources such as the build farm) **will not use nor encourage use
> of genAI** to author code or packages, to review code, to produce
> artwork,
> translations, or any other artifacts.
>
> Does this address your concern?
Not fully mine. :-)
When authoring, if I **use** GenAI to know more about some patterns, for
example the GenAi output is:
(add-before 'build 'patch-manifest.in
(lambda _
(call-with-output-file "MANIFEST.in"
(lambda (port)
(when (file-exists? "MANIFEST.in")
;; append the new line to existing file
(call-with-input-file "MANIFEST.in"
(lambda (in)
(dump-port in port))))
(format port "include extra-file.txt~%"))))))))
Then my final submission is:
(add-before 'check 'patch-potfiles.skip
(lambda _
(let ((file "po/POTFILES.skip"))
(with-output-to-file file
(lambda ()
(display "lxsession-default-apps/combobox.c\n")
(display "lxsession-default-apps/main.c\n")
(display "data/lxpolkit.desktop.in\n")
(display "lxpolkit/main.c\n")
(display "lxsession/app.c\n"))))
#t)))))
The question is thus: Do I breach my pledge?
My understanding of the current wording is yes I breach my pledge
because I **use** GenAI to author code. And I’ll not pledge that
because I do whatever I want on my side for authoring code while the
outcome is crystal clear.
If you answer no it isn’t a breach, then there is an issue about the
wording because we do not understand the same thing.
> If not, what change would make it acceptable to you? And what would be
> ideal to you? (The two answers may differ.)
Instead, I propose this wording:
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1. The project (defined as maintainers, team members, and anyone with write
access to a Guix repository, including Weblate, or to Guix resources such
as the build farm) *will not use or encourage use of genAI*. Namely, the
use of genAI means *not simply pasting* answers, code or packages, code
reviews, artwork, translations or comments generated by genAI *without
proper review using human own input*.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
It appears to me much better because it clarifies what means “use” in
this context.
Cheers,
simon
