On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 7:32 AM Dawid Weiss <[email protected]> wrote: > > # Person-to-person discussions > > I've also noticed that there's less and less of the person-to-person > discussions on the dev list. I am sentimental, maybe, but I miss the > oddball conversations and jokes we used to have in the past. Maybe > it's just the project going graybeard or maybe it's the sign of > changing times but I can't help but think that it's became less of a > forum for programming enthusiasts exchanging (wild) ideas and learning > from each other and more of a corporate fix-this-add-this repository > with some infrastructure built on top. Or maybe it's just people > departing to more attractive languages/ projects - this can't be ruled > out too. I'm not judging here, I'm just observing the reality.
I think we should consider an LLM policy or at least start with a disclosure policy. I honestly believe this would help. I'm not even focused on the code here actually. I'm referring to e.g. issue/PR template or maybe even some verbage in CONTRIBUTING.md that gives some guidance. As a volunteer, I don't want to read a PR where the description is a big wall of computer-generated slop. It discourages me from even looking at the code, which might in fact be clean and very good. In some cases, the user might have ONLY used LLM for the PR description because english isn't their native language. There's a lot of reasons why it might happen. But especially if you deal with "walls of LLM text" during your dayjob, then you really don't want to deal with more of it in a volunteer capacity. I think for some folks "disclosure" also helps too, because then everything seems more genuine? I'm just gonna toss out some examples where I think the policies are simple/not-controversial and seem to be working for the communities in question: * astral (uv, ruff, etc): https://github.com/astral-sh/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md * neovim: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#ai-assisted-work If nobody is opposed to the idea, maybe we can open a PR with 3 or lines of text similar to one of those examples? Maybe we could improve issue/PR templates to link to it. It might improve the signal-to-noise ratio. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
