Thanks a lot for your feedback. I’ll do my best to address the concerns you mentioned.
Thinking about it more, I realized this idea might actually apply better in a company setting, where knowledge often gets lost when someone leaves, rather than being tied strictly to Apache projects. So no need to frame it only around Apache projects. Thank you. On 2025/09/22 14:50:21 Bill Cole wrote: > On 2025-09-22 at 09:44:37 UTC-0400 (Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:44:37 -0400) > Rich Bowen <[email protected]> > is rumored to have said: > > > Bill’s reaction is, I presume, rooted in the hallucinations that various AI > > assistants have all the time, and that’s a valid concern. > > That's significant, but I'm more concerned with the issues of IP theft and > covert biases in training input. An obviously wrong "hallucination" is > nowhere near as bad as output that seems plausible but is wrong in subtle > ways. > > The proposed generic name and acronym for the type of tool is also a problem, > as it seems like an intentional collision with the "Model Context Protocol." > > And overall, I still see no improvement to be gained by creating a black box > to hold documentation over simply having PMCs & contributors work openly and > document their concepts and changes. The problem description implies chronic > failure to spread, share, and record knowledge on the part of major > contributors. That problem should not be present in any ASF project that has > been through the Incubator, and if it develops later can be resolved by > documentation. Allowing a convoluted pile of machine-generated linear algebra > to be the source of truth about a project is a fundamentally bad idea, if > only because it acts as the inscrutable dead hand of former contributors who > may no longer care about the project or who merely may have never considered > modern circumstances which necessitate change. ASF projects "belong to" the > current users and developers, not the ghosts of original authors. > > > -- > Bill Cole > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
