LLM reviwability and trust (was: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: tabspaces)

> On that single day, the author made four commits to tabspaces.el. The
> first at 10:33 added 167 insertions and 164 deletions. The second at
> 10:56 added 25 insertions and 15 deletions. The third at 17:26 added
> 274 insertions and 24 deletions. The fourth at 21:25 added 25
> insertions and 20 deletions.
>
> That is 491 insertions and 223 deletions, for a total of 714 lines
> changed in one day.

Even before LLMs, we did not have enough people to be able to review
patches to (Non)GNU ELPA packages.  But LLMs make the problem more
obvious, indeed.

If you subscribe to `emacs-elpa-diffs` mailing-list you will have seen
that several packages seem to follow the pattern described above, where
the daily patches are numerous and large enough that it seems safe to
presume that the author hasn't had the time to review them.

Regardless of the FSF's reservation w.r.t copyright issues, this can be
worrisome.  I've taken the stance that it's OK for packages to which
I have no intention to contribute.


=== Stefan