Hi Florian,
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email protected]> writes:
Hello Ian.
What else can we fix? Or is it only a policy issue? Or
unrelated to
LLM?
It is a combination of multiple things.
The LLM policy issue is the main one. I don’t want to contribute
to projects which treats recombinations of infringing code as
having value equal to original work; I don’t want to contribute to
problems that sees generated code as more important than the
planet’s climate (or ones where those seem likely outcomes). At
least to me, this is not a difficult question, so even seeing the
discussion around this subject has been a disheartening look into
the mismatched values between myself and others in the project.
The end result of GCD 008 was much weaker than what I’d like to
see, and still failed.
The asymmetry of expectations within the GCD process. We are
expected to accept the objection, while the objector is allowed to
reject the expectations of the project, ex. they seem to have
blown up the process and vanished rather than engaging to solve
the single, minor, material issue they raised. While I do not
agree with invalidating the objection, I also believe that a
process tolerant of this asymmetry is unlikely to result in any
but uncontroversial changes.
Lack of visible effort to address either the direct failure of GCD
008 or the underlying issues leading to it. Maybe they’re
happening, but if so, they don’t seem to be happening in public.
And we (guix-devel) were explicitly told to stop talking about
these issues. How are we supposed to find a way forward when
discussion is prohibited?
LLM commits hitting master. While it’s only a couple at this
time, there is no policy against them, and there seem to be many
people who wish to add them. Call them the straw(s) that broke
the camel’s back, but my heart absolutely sank when I saw. Absent
a policy prohibiting LLM commits, I expect more. Absent fixing
the dysfunction in the concensus process, I expect no prohibition.
The more LLM commits that get added, the harder it will be to
unwind; the window to change direction is rapidly closing.
-- Ian
