Thanks, Michael. Yeah, I agree that we should have clear guidelines and I also don't think we should overuse "Generated-by" if it was only used for fairly trivial stuff.
I also find the scope of "Generated-by" in the commit message too large as it doesn't provide any hint which parts were AI generated. I think it would make sense to add "Generated-by" to class/function comments that were mostly generated by AI. - Zoltan On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 9:59 PM Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > These guidelines seem to leave some of the specifics up to individual > projects. I think we should agree on some clearer guidelines for > contributors, and post it on our wiki > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/IMPALA/Contributing+to+Impala > >. > > I do have GitHub Copilot enabled, and my rule-of-thumb is if I do more than > accept small auto-complete suggestions (not much different to what > pre-generative tooling produced) that I can immediately understand, I add > "Generated-by: GitHub Copilot (<model>)" to the commit message, like in > apache/impala#ac1c11dd > < > https://github.com/apache/impala/commit/ac1c11dd8256e8a81e138f43663de06610441d41 > > > or apache/impala#c0b3580 > < > https://github.com/apache/impala/commit/c0b35807543f96cb382240717ab552d17f6f78a6 > > > . > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM Zoltán Borók-Nagy <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Dear Contributors, > > > > With AI tools getting more popular these days, please take some time to > > read the ASF Generative Tooling Guidance: > > https://www.apache.org/legal/generative-tooling.html > > > > Kind regards, > > Zoltan Borok-Nagy > > >
