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Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau Fight Health Insurance: https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/ <https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/?q=hk_email> Books (Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, etc.): https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9 <https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9> YouTube Live Streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/holdenkarau Pronouns: she/her On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 4:58 AM Nicholas Chammas <[email protected]> wrote: > Cheng Pan and I are discussing updating the PR template to use > “Assisted-by” instead of “Generated-by”. > > ASF policy allows us to choose our own git commit trailer to indicate AI > involvement; “Generated-by” and “Co-authored-by” are their suggestions, but > we prefer “Assisted-by”. > > Speaking for myself (perhaps Cheng agrees with this rationale as well), I > prefer “Assisted-by” because it leaves authorship squarely with the human > submitting the patch. Apache's licensing terms notwithstanding, code > authorship implies some form of responsibility, and an AI agent cannot be > responsible <https://x.com/bumblebike/status/832394003492564993/photo/1> for > anything. Only a human can. “Assisted-by” communicates this clearly, > whereas “Generated-by” and “Co-authored-by” do not. > > Perhaps in 5-10 years (or less!) we will look back on this idea as quaint > and outdated, but for now it holds. I propose we update our PR template > accordingly. > > Please chime in here: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/59666 > > Nick > >
