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

On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 01:50:33AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>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.

There is no objection against ignoring or rejecting slop. There is 
objection against calling everything that ever has been near an LLM 
during its creation process slop.

>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?

Of course not. Filing slop bug reports is not what i would call 
responsible use and I do frown upon people doing so.

Greetings
Marc