Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-14 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 08:52:39AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > I'd really like to know how it is possible for one to use an LLM to make > a contribution to a permissively licensed project (e.g. Expat) without > in effect stealing the code from one's own tribe of Copyleft authors. > > Can one even

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-13 Thread Philip Hands
"M. Zhou" writes: > On Sun, 2025-01-12 at 16:56 +, Colin Watson wrote: >> >> (I have less fixed views on locally-trained models, but I see no very >> compelling need to find more things to spend energy on even if the costs >> are lower.) > > Locally-trained models are not practical in the cu

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-13 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 11:25:20AM -0500, M. Zhou wrote: > On Sat, 2025-01-11 at 13:49 +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > > > > Today trying to see how a new person who wants to start maintaining new > > packages would do and trying to do research thinking from his point of > > view and from simple s

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (WAS: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-12 Thread Ángel
On 2025-01-12 at 18:03 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Watching other people find and fix bugs, even in code they > have written or know well, I can't trust systems built on modern > Markov chains to do better, no matter how much input you give them, and > that's without crediting LLMs as able to

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-12 Thread M. Zhou
On Sun, 2025-01-12 at 16:56 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > (I have less fixed views on locally-trained models, but I see no very > compelling need to find more things to spend energy on even if the costs > are lower.) Locally-trained models are not practical in the current stage. State-of-the-art

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (WAS: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 04:56:15PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 07:13:58PM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > I don't think Debian should as an organization pay for LLMs. On the > > contrary I would expect LLM providers to offer API keys for free to > > Debian Developers just

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 07:13:58PM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > I don't think Debian should as an organization pay for LLMs. On the > contrary I would expect LLM providers to offer API keys for free to > Debian Developers just like we have other perks listed at > https://wiki.debian.org/MemberBe

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-11 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
... > Debian should consider allocating some budget like several hundred USD > per month for the LLM API calls for all members and new-comers' usage. I don't think Debian should as an organization pay for LLMs. On the contrary I would expect LLM providers to offer API keys for free to Debian Devel

Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:04:15 +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > Yeah, not sure if that's your point but I think everyone agrees that we > need a good new packager document and while there were some attempts in > the past (see links on https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/ ) > there is sti

Call for contributions to maintain existing documentation - Salsa makes it is easy! (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-11 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! (cross-posting to mentors as they have most experience on what is wrong with our current docs) ... > Even if somebody in Debian community has enough time to overhaul everything > and create a new documentation, it will become the situation described > in XKCD meme "standards": xkcd.com/927/ -

Re: Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-11 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 11:25:20AM -0500, M. Zhou wrote: > Opinion against this post will include something about hallucination. > In the case LLM write something that does not compile at all, or write > some non-existent API, a human is intelligent enough to easily notice > that build failure or l

Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-11 Thread Fabio Fantoni
Il 11/01/2025 16:38, Ahmad Khalifa ha scritto: On 11/01/2025 12:49, Fabio Fantoni wrote: Write on Google "Debian create new package" and first result: https:// wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian It points to various parts but mainly the more probable start point seems https://wiki.debian.o

Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-11 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 03:38:10PM +, Ahmad Khalifa wrote: > > Write on Google "Debian create new package" and first result: https:// > > wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian > > > > It points to various parts but mainly the more probable start point > > seems https://wiki.debian.org/Packagin

Project-wide LLM budget for helping people (was: Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-11 Thread M. Zhou
On Sat, 2025-01-11 at 13:49 +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > > Today trying to see how a new person who wants to start maintaining new > packages would do and trying to do research thinking from his point of > view and from simple searches on the internet I found unfortunately that > these parts a

Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-11 Thread Ahmad Khalifa
On 11/01/2025 12:49, Fabio Fantoni wrote: Write on Google "Debian create new package" and first result: https:// wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian It points to various parts but mainly the more probable start point seems https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Intro To point to git and gbp see

Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-11 Thread Julien Plissonneau Duquène
Le 2025-01-11 13:49, Fabio Fantoni a écrit : What would be the best, easiest and fastest procedure (especially for newcomers) to create a new package from scratch, aiming to use git, salsa, salsa-ci, gbp and DEP14 from the beginning? It Depends™. As in, it really depends on what you are pack

Re: Complete and unified documentation for new maintainers

2025-01-11 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 01:49:33PM +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > I don't know if I've managed to explain well what I mean, but from what I've > seen over the years, most of the people I've seen trying to approach > packaging have had difficulty finding documentation and help (even on > mentors, alt