Past discussions on the topic (Was: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian)

On 22/07/26 at 17:35 +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> What follows is a GR proposal to ban LLM contributions.
> 
> It is time for Debian to make a statement regarding generative AI and LLM usage.
> Since this has been discussed in exhaustive detail on -private and -project,
> the proposal follows below without any further discussion.

Hi,

For reference, as it was not mentioned in this email, there was a
GR proposal discussed on the same topic in February and March,
starting with
https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/02/msg00000.html

It was also covered by LWN:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1061544/

Also, using AI, I generated a summary of that discussion, and also a
summary of the discussion on -project that happened concurrently:
https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/ai-gr/-/blob/main/discussions/vote-202602.md
https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/ai-gr/-/blob/main/discussions/project-202602.md

The prompt I used is included in the same directory. I read the
summaries but did not check them for correctness -- still, I believe
they are useful to get an overview of what was discussed, and links to
specific emails are provided if needed.

Lucas