I will reply on-list and bcc you, I don't like dealing with questions about ports etc from people I don't know in private.
On 2026/10/28 21:23, <redacted>@icloud.com wrote: > Hello, Mr. Henderson. > > I know this is a strange question considering the timing of the 8.0 release, > and its obvious anti-AI message, but I am hoping to get some guidance > on the use of AI in the development of ports and packages. Is it just as > verboten in ports and packages as it is in base and the kernel? > > Thank you very much for your time. > > Best regards, > > <redacted> There's no specific policy but there are some people who have been trying to use LLMs for ports submissions and the quality has been poor and it tends to result in extremely complicated unmaintable mess so we generally haven't wanted to touch those submissions for that reason. Additionally the thing making it hard to get ports submissions committed is not writing them in the first place, it's developer time to review, and those submissions certainly don't help. Personally if some software is interesting to me I'd rather see a request to port it rather than a machine-generated submission for it, it's often less work to write a port than sort out the usable bits from what was sent.
