Hi Gabriel,

Gabriel Wicki <[email protected]> writes:

> I disapprove
>
>
>
> I have taken my time to reflect and meditate over the proposal but I am
> unable to find my peace with it.

That's very brave of you for speaking your heart, in the context of this
GCD which has been passionately debated, to put it mildly.  I abstained
from letting my personal decision out not only for being jet lagged and
missing the deadline but also from the pressure of wanting to reach
consensus (I appreciate the hard work everyone has poured in it).  If I
had done so, it would have been at best a "I reluctantly accept", for
the reasons I and others have expressed during the discussion period
[0].

[0]  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2026-06/msg00244.html

Per our GCD, disapproving means

  that more discussion and thought is needed before ideas in the GCD are
  accepted by the community.

Which is not the worst result; we have already a much better
understanding of where we stand to iterate on the next GCD, or what I
think would be simpler and work better, propose very short and concise
new LLM-related guidelines to include into our user manual via a patch
(PR) and bringing people's attention to it via guix-devel that can
hopefully be agreed without much back an forth to address what I think
is the most serious issue posed by the use of LLM authored changes to
the Guix project, the legal risks caused by LLM's output copyright
uncertainty.  As a stop-gap measure, we can continue (well, we haven't
really had to block anything obviously LLM-generated, vibe-coded yet,
but I think we agree that we wouldn't let this kind of change in)
blocking LLM-authored changes until such explicit guideline is written
down for all to refer to.

Happy hacking,

-- 
Maxim

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