On 9/18/25 3:30 PM, Eelco Chaudron via dev wrote: > Add a section to the submitting-patches documentation describing the > use of an "Assisted-by" tag for patches created with AI assistance. > > Co-authored-by: Mark Michelson <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Mark Michelson <[email protected]> > > --- > This patch is based on a similar change in the OVN project. > For more details, see the link below: > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ovn/patch/[email protected]/ > --- > .../internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst > b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst > index 8a8bc11b0..cb328af64 100644 > --- a/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst > +++ b/Documentation/internals/contributing/submitting-patches.rst > @@ -357,6 +357,19 @@ Open vSwitch please sign off your work. The sign off > certifies the following: > > See also http://developercertificate.org/. > > +AI-assisted Contributions > +------------------------- > + > +OVS is a Linux Foundation project, and the Linux Foundation's policy for
I think, we should add the 'Collaborative' before the project to be more accurate, in which case may also need to capitalize the P in the 'project'. (see examples on the website) > +AI-generated patches can be found here: > +https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/generative-ai . > + > +OVS allows the use of AI assistants in producing patches. Contributions > +which have used an AI assistant should disclose the use of the assistant by > +using the "Assisted-by" tag. While AI-assisted patches are allowed, the > author > +of the patch is ultimately responsible for ensuring that the AI-generated > code > +has not violated any terms of the Developer's Certificate of Origin. > + This document is pretty consistent with using double spaces between sentences, so we should do the same in the added text. With these changes, I think the policy itself is fair enough. The use of the tag is a little debatable, but we can tweak this policy if needed later. For now it seems like a decent starting point: Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
