[gdal-dev] Call for review: RFC111: AI/LLM tool policy

[Alexandre Gacon]

Hello,

Not directly related but could be part of your discussion: the founder of
Hashicorp has released a tool to help OSS building trusted community of
developers. The GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch.

Regards
Alexandre

Le lun. 9 févr. 2026 à 22:27, Jan Heckman via gdal-dev <
gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :

> I have little ground to reply here, so I'll be short, no waves intended.
> 1) the human element prevails. If the LLM is the last in the (comment,
> bug) chain, disregard or low priority.
> 2) Is there perhaps a way to work through low priority using an LLM?
> 3) that requires an LLM so maintainers are not flooded by LLM's.
> If you think I am talking rubbish, I do not take that personally at all.
> Keep up the great work,
> Jan
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM Even Rouault via gdal-dev <
> gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Le 09/02/2026 à 21:57, Kurt Schwehr a écrit :
>> > It looks pretty good to me.
>> >
>> > One comment:
>> >
>> > What about an AI that autonomously finds bugs that trigger sanitizers
>> > that are verifiable like OSS Fuzz does?
>>
>> I'd say that's generally fine, because at the end you have a "digital"
>> human (the sanitizer), that is something with inductive logic, checking
>> the output of the AI. But there must also be some protection to avoid
>> such tools to spam our issue tracker with hundreds of reports, ie it
>> should first prioritize the most critical ones and make sure they are
>> addressed before issuing reports of lesser criticity.  It is hard to
>> encode the rules besides trying to apply empathy: try to put yourself at
>> the receiving end of the flow and imagine how you'd react
>>
>>
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