assisted by or generated by is a lukewarm measure that does nothing to
address the use of these tools.
"assisted by" over "generated by" is an ego protection measure.
All of this does nothing to address the core of the problem. It will not
contribute to change the amount of slop inserted into nuttx (or change
maintainer load) in any significant way.
Sebastien
On 7/3/26 16:06, Alin Jerpelea wrote:
Hi Mateo,
please replace "generated-by" with "Assisted-by" like most projects
*Thanks*
*Alin*
On Fri, 3 Jul 2026, 17:03 Matteo Golin, <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello everyone,
While we continue to discuss an AI policy for NuttX, one thing I think we
can agree on is to adopt the Apache Software Foundation guideline for
generative tooling that recommends the following:
"When providing contributions authored using generative AI tooling, a
recommended practice is for contributors to indicate the tooling used to
create the contribution. This should be included as a token in the source
control commit message, for example including the phrase “Generated-by: ”.
This allows for future release tooling to be considered that pulls this
content into a machine parsable Tooling-Provenance file" [1]
I am proposing a vote on requiring the "Generated-by: " tag for
contributions using AI tooling in accordance with the ASF guidelines. If
this vote passes, the following text would be added to the contribution
guide (section 1.5):
"Contributions authored with the use of generative AI-tooling must include
a 'Generated-by:' tag in the commit message to identify the generative
tooling that was used in the contribution's creation. This tag should be
placed above the 'Signed-off by:' tag in the commit message."
And the 'Generated-by: ' tag will be added as a required field in section
1.6 of the Contribution guide.
Best,
Matteo
[1]: https://www.apache.org/legal/generative-tooling.html
