On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 2:05 PM Thompson, David
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Guix!
>
> Grok and I are submitting GCD 009: Allowing LLM-assisted and LLM-generated
> contributions. With the imminent withdrawal of GCD 008, we thought it would
> be best to create a GCD that tried things a different way – a policy of
> permission rather than rejection.
>
> This document is also available for comment on Codeberg:
>
> https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/14
>
> Regards,
>
> - Dave
>From GCD 001 [0]:
Submission Period (up to 7 days)
Anyone can author and propose a GCD as a regular patch
and look for sponsors (see “Roles”). The GCD is
submitted once one or more people have volunteered to be
sponsors by publicly replying “I sponsor”; it is
cancelled if no sponsor could be found during that
period. The next step is the discussion period.
Authors may withdraw their GCD at any time; they can
resubmit it again later (under a new GCD number).
GCD 009 has not been withdrawn and the author has requested a sponsor
[1] during active (early, pre-discussion) good faith discussion so
I sponsor
in good faith as well. GCD 008 established (with near consensus, and
in common with the pending GNU guidelines per RMS) that LLM
contributions are acceptable to our project, with constraints, and I
believe that the author and community can likewise work to build
consensus around this proposal. Also from GCD 001:
Decision Making
Contributors and even more so team members are expected
to help build consensus. By using consensus, we are
committed to finding solutions that everyone can live
with.
Thus, no decision is made against significant concerns;
these concerns are actively resolved through counter
proposals. A deliberating member disapproving a proposal
bears a responsibility for finding alternatives,
proposing ideas or code, or explaining the rationale for
the status quo.
To learn what consensus decision making means and
understand its finer details, you are encouraged to read
https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/consensus.
Greg
[0]
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/src/branch/main/001-gcd-process.md
[1]
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-consensus-documents/pulls/14#issuecomment-20232058
