On 3 Oct 2025, at 12:14, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 03/10/2025 10:55, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>> 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:
>>
>
> +1
>
> Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <[email protected]>
>
>> Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
Thanks, Aaron, Ilya, and Kevin. Applied to main with the above comments
incorporated.
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