Hi Mateo,

ASF provides guidelines for us, and I would follow kernel approach sinne I
am looking at the industry algnment

https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html

Best regards
Alin

On Fri, 3 Jul 2026, 17:19 Matteo Golin, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Alin,
>
> Should we not follow the ASF "Generated-by: "? I think it makes it more
> clear that generative tooling is used, and it is the recommendation from
> Apache.
>
> Best,
> Matteo
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 10:17 AM Sebastien Lorquet <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >>
> >
>

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