On 2025-09-22 at 05:53:36 UTC-0400 (Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:53:36 +0900)
Yongjun Hong <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:

> The core idea: The heart of my idea is an AI assistant I'm calling the

The day that the current LLM forms of so-called "AI" are accepted as part of 
ASF development will be my last day as a member and contributor, and will start 
my migration of everything I support off of ASF software. I expect that I am 
not alone in that position.

> Here’s the problem I’m hoping to solve : So many of our projects run on the
> passion of just a handful of key maintainers, right? The real problem is
> that so much of the *"why" *the history behind a big decision, the design
> philosophy lives only in their heads. When they (inevitably) have less time
> or step back, that crucial knowledge is often gone for good. It creates an
> information imbalance, makes it incredibly hard for new people to step up,
> and puts the long-term health of our projects at risk.

The solution for this is much simpler: proper documentation. A project whose 
fundamental design philosophy isn't well-documented doesn't belong outside the 
Incubator.

As for recording the reasons behind big decisions during the project lifecycle, 
that is why we have publicly archived mailing lists which are supposed to be 
where such decisions are made.


-- 
Bill Cole

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