On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 04:15:50PM -0500, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Option 5 is not the status quo.
>
> Option 5 creates a right for contributors to not disclose AI usage:
> We enourage our contributors to disclose whether a contribution was
> made with AI assitance, but do not require them to do so.
>
> If this is what Debian decides, then maintainers must not force
> disclosure by asking contributors about AI assistance.
I read option 5 as saying that we would *encourage* to disclose if AI
assisted was used, e.g:
Assisted-by: LLM
However, it does not *require* that a particular tag be placed in a
git commit description.
This is the status quo.
You seem to be saying that a maintainer would not be allowed to ask
the question, "Did you use AI", and I don't think option 5 disallows
the asking of that question. The contributor might or might not
answer the question, but there's also nothing that says that a
maintainer is forced to accept a contribution if someone answer the
question one way or another --- or not at all.
Again, this sounds like it's very close to the status quo today, at
least to me.
- Ted
