Re: GR -- Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:19:15 -0500

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On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 05:48:58PM -0600, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 4:38 PM Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Based on recent discussions, it sounds like we probably need a
> > discussion in the framework of a GR to understand where we stand
> > regarding AI-assisted contributions to Debian.
> 
> 
> Hello Lucas, all,
> 
> With all due respect to your work on drafting this, Lucas, I strongly urge
> us not to go through with a GR on this topic yet.  This is something which
> both us and the larger free software community is still actively debating,
> and a GR is a tool for when a decision is ready to be made.  Having a GR on
> this matter now is premature and will be extremely divisive -- even
> schismatic.
> 
> As someone with personally strong feelings about AI, I still believe that
> we are better off with the current status quo where we can still discuss,
> rather than vote and decide.

That's so very much well said.

Thanks to Lucas for bringing this up in such a peaceful, well-intentioned, and
non-passionate tone. I hope this can be a good starting point for discussion,
but not yet for -vote :-)

There has been some interesting input from that (too?) old thread (mostly from
Russ and Zack I'd say):

https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2024/05/threads.html

Bests,

-- 
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz

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