Re: Draft permissive ballot option (was: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian)

Halo,

On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 02:44:56PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>Marc Haber writes ("Draft permissive ballot option (was: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian)"):
>> DRAFT BALLOT OPTION
>
>This option leaves open the question of whether (for example) a
>maintainer must engage with LLM generated submissions.

It does so deliberately. Submissions should be acted upon by their 
contents, not by the way they were generated.

>For example, the src:dgit maitnainers regard LLM output as memetic
>pollution, and do not want to read it.  We do not want to review
>LLM-generated code submissions, nor do we want to read LLM-generated
>bug reports.

Even if they would help making your software better?

>If someone were to file an LLM-generated bug report, or MR, or
>something, we would probably close it, stating this (package-specific)
>policy.

By ignoring a valid bug report, you're violating the social contract 
which says that our focus is on our users.

Greetings
Marc