I think "Assisted-by" used in the Linux communities is more suitable/accurate. It means "AI is considered a tool (similar to a compiler or static analysis tool) and not an author. The human contributor must review, understand, and vouch for every line of code, regardless of whether it was written by them or an AI".
https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html https://docs.rockylinux.org/10/guides/contribute/ai-contribution-policy/ Quanlong On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 10:07 PM Zoltán Borók-Nagy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > >
