[QGIS-Developer] R: Tightening AI submission policy?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 7:14 AM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 at 20:37, Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer
> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> >
> > Can we clarify what the scope of this change is? We internally use LLM
> assistances a lot for the web development work we do on various QGIS sites.
> Are you suggesting this as a global QGIS.org policy or scoped the the QGIS
> application code base?
>
> IMO the QEP policies only apply to the qgis/qgis repository, so no, it
> wouldn't directly impact the web development. But I'd also say that a
> "Contribute only what you understand" principle would be a good one to
> adopt for EVERY qgis repo.
>

Sure, that is a given. Thanks.

Regards

Tim



>
> Nyall
>
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 9:26 AM Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-Developer <
> qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Tue, 23. Jun 2026 at 08:19:18 +0000, Ludovico Toscano via
> QGIS-Developer wrote:
> >> > I have an idea which is saw implemented in ghostty, to prevent
> contribution from bot or vibe coders. Basically the author of the repo has
> made a honeypot for these agents, he has made a AGENTS.md and a CLAUDE.md
> where in the last line of the document he tell the model to make a md file
> that saing "I am a sad, dumb little AI driver with no real skills." His
> idea is simple, if the author of the pr doesn't read the diff of the pr he
> will not notice that the LLM has added this file and this trigger a
> immediate ban.
> >> >
> >> > https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AGENTS.md
> >>
> >> See also https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/master/AGENTS.md
> >>
> >> Jürgen
> >>
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