On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 at 11:32, Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In addition, I believe accepting AI-assisted contributions will
> discourage
> > contributors that do not have the financial means to access AI services.
>
> That's true. Currently it's not really an issue because there are
> sufficient actors willing to provide access to their services for free,
> with quotas sufficient for typical volunteer work. But this might
> change.
>
>
I am pretty sure that quite a few of these service providers would *love*
the publicity of providing free upgraded plans for Debian Developers if we
asked them. Google alone could easily just flip the toggle on Gemini Pro
for a couple thousand accounts without breaking a sweat. Think of LWN
subscriptions and of free hosting and compute capacity that quite a few
providers have happily provided to the project over the decades. This might
actually be an *enabler* for DDs and DMs with limited access to such
technologies currently. And having an explicit framework enabling such work
inside Debian is a key step for getting and using such support.
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Best regards,
Aigars Mahinovs
