On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 9:58 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 08:12:33AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 8:00 AM Alex Bennée <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > We should reflect the current status so users don't have unrealistic > > > expectations of how quickly things can get reviewed and merged. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <[email protected]> > > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Warner Losh <[email protected]> > > snip > > > A lot of the upstreaming work that's stalled would be ideal to tell > claude > > to do, > > but I'm unsure the project's stance on using claude to move code, and git > > log > > 5 different trees to get the original author(s) of the code and make > > trivial compile > > tweaks. > > The critical thing we don't want is such tools making changes to the > contents of source files. > > Automating the moving around of files is a non-issue. > > The use of AI for writing commit messages is arguably in scope of QEMU's > AI policy given that is part of "the contribution", but it is less serious > there, since commit messages don't have a copyright implication on what we > host & distribute. > > More important is that the commit messages are accurate and well written. > LLMs have a tendancy to be overly verbose about irrelevant stuff, and of > course the well known danger of hallucinating nonsense. IME that makes it > challenging to benefit from an LLM, due to review & re-writing overheads > you then incurr to validate and fix their output. > Yea, the commit messages llm would generate is 'do function X' and I'd then fill it in from there, changing everything except X. > I'd be wary of relying on an AI to extract and report on authorship of > code. Accuracy is important there since it implies copyright ownership > associations. Likewise a Signed-off-by tag should be added by humans > only since it is a statement they are complying with the DCO policy. > I'd be verifying everything done. Verification is relatively easy, extraction is the hard part. And the range of people it could be is tiny, so I'd know if it was making stuff up, or had gone off the rails... And I'd have it add something like 'Supposed-author: ' that I'd change once I verified it. That's ugly grunt work, but ugly grunt work I can do in an hour or two rather than the dozens of hours it usually takes me to do the extraction... Warner
