I quite like Astral's policy for this On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 10:01 AM Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 7:32 AM Dawid Weiss <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > # Person-to-person discussions > > > > I've also noticed that there's less and less of the person-to-person > > discussions on the dev list. I am sentimental, maybe, but I miss the > > oddball conversations and jokes we used to have in the past. Maybe > > it's just the project going graybeard or maybe it's the sign of > > changing times but I can't help but think that it's became less of a > > forum for programming enthusiasts exchanging (wild) ideas and learning > > from each other and more of a corporate fix-this-add-this repository > > with some infrastructure built on top. Or maybe it's just people > > departing to more attractive languages/ projects - this can't be ruled > > out too. I'm not judging here, I'm just observing the reality. > > I think we should consider an LLM policy or at least start with a > disclosure policy. I honestly believe this would help. I'm not even > focused on the code here actually. I'm referring to e.g. issue/PR > template or maybe even some verbage in CONTRIBUTING.md that gives some > guidance. As a volunteer, I don't want to read a PR where the > description is a big wall of computer-generated slop. It discourages > me from even looking at the code, which might in fact be clean and > very good. In some cases, the user might have ONLY used LLM for the PR > description because english isn't their native language. There's a lot > of reasons why it might happen. But especially if you deal with "walls > of LLM text" during your dayjob, then you really don't want to deal > with more of it in a volunteer capacity. I think for some folks > "disclosure" also helps too, because then everything seems more > genuine? > > I'm just gonna toss out some examples where I think the policies are > simple/not-controversial and seem to be working for the communities in > question: > > * astral (uv, ruff, etc): > https://github.com/astral-sh/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md > * neovim: > https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#ai-assisted-work > > If nobody is opposed to the idea, maybe we can open a PR with 3 or > lines of text similar to one of those examples? Maybe we could improve > issue/PR templates to link to it. It might improve the signal-to-noise > ratio. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
