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

[Greg Troxel]

Laurențiu Nicola via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
writes:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2026, at 14:31, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer wrote:
>
>>   It's interesting that what I'm guessing is large numbers of
>>   LLM-generated PRs and/or LLM text in issues is at least mostly in
>>   github.  If so, that is a clue that perhaps github itself is a problem
>
> If I may: https://xkcd.com/1138/

While that's funny (and everyone who confuses correlation and causation
eventually dies), I think there's something to the "github problematic"
theory.

Tradtionally, projects were centered on mailinglists.  That built
commmunity.  With github, people show up and file and issue or PR and
don't really join.  github computes scores/profiles and pushes
themselves as something that matters, and they push AI.  A project on
github that doesn't want AI, and doesn't want to suffer from people
collecting gamified points, is swimming upstream.

I'm involved in another (very small) project that is list centered, and
now has repos on codeberg.  But, propsoed changes are "git send-email"
to the list, not PR/MR.   I have not noticed any LLM intrusions.