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 we will look back on this idea as quaint and outdated, but for now it holds.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
