Re: An AI Usage Policy for IPFire

[Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl@ipfire.org>]

Hello Michael,

thanks for working this out.

I've read through the document and it is very good written. Similar to
Adolf I would clarify a bit more what a "Pull request" is and what kind
of requests we accept and which not.

Best regards,

-Stefan
> Hello everyone,
> 
> While eating my lunch today I stumbled over the AI Usage Policy that
> the Ghostty project has come up with. I quite liked it and I think
> that IPFire should also have a policy for AI usage in place. We have
> not received such an overwhelming amount of AI-generated patches
> unlike Ghostty and cURL, but we have received some that have been
> very low quality and when asked questions, the person who submitted
> this patch raised his hands and dropped out. This is just a waste of
> time for everyone involved.
> 
> This policy that I have slightly adapted for IPFire demands that any
> kind of AI usage is allowed, but has to be disclosed. The point is to
> avoid any kind of low-quality, time-wasting submissions. I too
> believe that we should make this known upfront so that we can all be
> on the same page and make the job easy for us in case we need to
> reject any kind of patch submission.
> 
> On the other hand, the policy is encouraging AI usage as there are
> indeed tasks where AI can help. But just because it is AI-generated
> does not mean that something is good.
> 
> I would like you all to have a look at this and see if this is
> working for you as well or if you would like to have any changes made
> to it:
> 
>   https://www.ipfire.org/docs/devel/ai-policy
> 
> All the best,
> -Michael