[QGIS-Developer] Two proposals -- moratorium on LLM use, and requiring a "proof of life" for contributors

[David Koňařík]

Hi,
I understand this proposal is part of a larger ongoing debate, of which
I may have missed some parts, but I'd like to understand the context
nonetheless. Hurt within the community sounds pretty serious, but I can
only guess what you specifically mean by that.

If this is about drive-by LLM contributions wasting maintainers' time,
wouldn't your proposal #2 be enough? Or are existing contributors
abusing LLMs too? Or is the problem something else entirely?

David Koňařík

On Wed, 2026-09-16 at 13:44 +1000, Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer
wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> It's quite clear that there's considerable hurt and disappointment
> within the QGIS developer community right now, and for very
> understandable reasons.
> 
> I've been giving this a lot of thought over the last few days, and
> would like to propose two actions we could take that I think would
> make a positive difference to our community.
> 
> #1. Place an immediate, total moratorium on all forms of LLM based
> contributions.
> [...]
> 
> #2. Require a "proof of life" from all new contributors
> [...]

> What do you all think? I believe we need to act immediately on #1. (I
> realise #2 may be more tricky and/or controversial)
> 
> Nyall