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

Hi Marc (and others)

On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 11:48:55PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 02:44:56PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

...

>> 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.

That's another can of worms. Nowhere in the social contract do we
promise any focus on interacting with AI bots. Would you want to force
people to spend time on dealing with the kind of slop "bug reports"
that the curl project has been infamously dealing with?

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                [email protected]
< Aardvark> I dislike C++ to start with. C++11 just seems to be
            handing rope-creating factories for users to hang multiple
            instances of themselves.

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