From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail02.haj.ipfire.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mail02.haj.ipfire.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4dzf8b6Zfgz2yBj for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:40:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail01.ipfire.org (mail01.haj.ipfire.org [IPv6:2001:678:b28::25]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange x25519 server-signature ECDSA (secp384r1 raw public key) server-digest SHA384 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail01.haj.ipfire.org", Issuer "R12" (verified OK)) by mail02.haj.ipfire.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4dzf8X3Ykdz2xHh for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange x25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail01.ipfire.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4dzf8T4Y62z2pd for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:40:41 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ipfire.org; s=202003ed25519; t=1769362841; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=LQ8Qn7QVbU3+v9K3V8x1fe1r+InLALyJwvW05ah81Lc=; b=w0sexJpA1YD67KhwAckZL/Mp2X3JmfxQFFQGICXb3d/GMtjxGD9DKYahvLk3f/W7Me5km6 CipJvyAIBEFPpSCg== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ipfire.org; s=202003rsa; t=1769362841; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=LQ8Qn7QVbU3+v9K3V8x1fe1r+InLALyJwvW05ah81Lc=; b=dMmnktm5dq9Sl1Fm3bFImgAcYHJGajsQTOmjA60vuOO1ocleSq/F39HxUQCr9ZqhKNBbYL ZYYwcpsdqNTx2lEgESl5fIB0cLXFRtd/8qo8HO7bg0p0TU4KBPaVcJ3Km87aoHaV2TbQTW v2l5qlcY4W/kp7pC6Vl6M7ocjOFtO7y4uE14jtOsNdoGHrHJQ+dNUTtRBrxHyLkdcmHVos 6IW1wvrc7gw0xdpP+zCQ8UPVaPbH9wvshOCNocFi9iWEs9SjGmCmbP3W9tdP0h+7wvLngg olq3Io0HSKnnrVdbDZSeU8iOm64c/QYYuwfebqd+8a1sD8xQncnsQhsyTYMnpQ== Message-ID: <53ba3fe3aa6c9384fb1e5c5dc547802dd9558baa.camel@ipfire.org> Subject: Re: An AI Usage Policy for IPFire From: Stefan Schantl To: development@lists.ipfire.org Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:38:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: <825C0B91-4C7B-4352-9469-4148E6337AA0@ipfire.org> References: <825C0B91-4C7B-4352-9469-4148E6337AA0@ipfire.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: list List-Id: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: Sender: Mail-Followup-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 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, >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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: >=20 > =C2=A0 https://www.ipfire.org/docs/devel/ai-policy >=20 > All the best, > -Michael