Re: Nominations for Anthropic’s Claude for Open Source program

Carlos O'Donell <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:19:41 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha,gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Organization Red Hat, LLC.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/12/26 7:12 PM, Sam James wrote:
> .. but also, I think we probably need to have a policy discussion about
> this. I hope we won't have anyone pasting LLM replies onto bugs or patch
> review, or an automated process doing that. I would *not* want to see
> something like Sashiko for example. It would seriously put me off
> contributing to glibc and I don't think it is respectful of
> contributors' time who have come to us with a bug report or patch.

100% agreed.

> We should discuss this I think before handing out access.

That's a good point.

> Now, if a maintainer wants to use it to aid their review (with great
> care), that may be more acceptable.
I absolutely agree that we need an AI policy for glibc ASAP.

I'm even happy to put in place stop-gap while the WG for GCC AI policy makes a first draft.

As a stop-gap I'd put up a "no LLM contributions accepted" policy in place.

We are also waiting on the GNU Project to finish policy review.

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Cheers,
Carlos.