Re: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian

Gerardo Ballabio <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:19:43 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
Message-ID <CA+f80t46G0xK24Q0NAg1ibjEkZdmgy1xSq_tGLayH1u+g86q7A@mail.gmail.com>
Quoting from Proposal C:
> 7. Individual projects and maintainers may ban LLM contributions completely. Such bans (including by upstream projects) must be respected.
> 8. Violations of these requirements should be treated as violations of the relevant Code of Conduct and should result in swift and proportionate disciplinary action.

I find very problematic the concept that individual developers or
teams (and upstream projects, who aren't even members of Debian!) may
add their own rules to the Code of Conduct and that people would be
acted upon for not respecting those rules.
I also consider unreasonable to impose on people the burden of
researching whether each developer or team has set such rules. At the
very least, if this option were to pass, all such rules must be listed
in a centralized place where anyone can quickly check them.

Gerardo