Re: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian

Pierre-Elliott Bécue <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:14:07 +0200

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Ansgar 🙀 <[email protected]> wrote on 23/07/2026 at 18:11:50+0200:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2026-07-23 at 17:53 +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
>> > I've seen enough bad code in Debian.
>> 
>> Are you stating that "because some people are not doing a great job, we
>> should lower the bar so that even them fulfill our expectations"?
>
> Do you suggest to technically stop people from doing bad quality
> contributions from Debian? Currently we do lower the bar for them...
>
> Maybe we should introduce a mandatory review (by a human or LLM if we
> don't have enough human capacity for this) for contributions? That
> would probably raise the bar.

To me this is part of the job we do when we sponsor DCs and DMs. The
hard part is of course to maintain a reasonable quality level on the
long term with people having unrestricted upload privileges.

I think this comes from team maintenance.

So, not everything is perfect, but this is a sophistic approach.

LLMs are no DDs and their contributions to Debian should be heavily
reviewed by the Contributor submitting these.

-- 
PEB

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