Re: Attribution of AI assisted code generation
Joe Orton <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:33:42 +0100
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 01:35:27PM +0200, Ruediger Pluem wrote: > Maybe we should follow something like the Attribution section of https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html > for our own commits as well. > I saw Joe already doing something like this in his commits, but we probably should agree on a standard template / line > for us here. There is some suggestion from ASF policy at https://www.apache.org/legal/generative-tooling.html I've used "Co-Authored-By:" since Claude writes that and Github parses it by treating the indicated author as a sort of co-committer. So I just followed that kinda blindly so far. Our internal guidance is that we should indicate somehow in the contribution when a coding assistant has been used, but to follow upstream rules. I'm not sure if the new ASF Responsible AI Initiative will give us any extra guidance on what's appropriate here. Regards, Joe