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

[Greg Troxel]

Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> writes:

> 1. Define a clear policy that establishes the scope of what is allowed: "No
> LLM assisted code contributions are allowed in the
> https://github.com/qgis/qgis repository. We know this is difficult to
> enforce, but if we subsequently discover that you have used and LLM for
> your contribution, you risk code reversion and contributor rights
> sanctioning."

I wil observe that during the 2 weeks, it seems reasonable to close
LLM-containing PRs as low quality, if that's how they are, under
longstanding norms, or to simply defer paying attention after adding an
LLM lable.

I don't want to derail your proposal at all, but I think it's important
to also prohibit LLM text in issues, PR descriptions, email lists, chat,
and all other QGIS forums that are intended to be communication among
humans.  I have been seeing a lot of this in other projects and find it
really problematic.  If you think adding that increase controversy, I
suggest starting a 2nd QEP that addresses "everything but code".

(I agree that CLA vs no-LLM is best kept separate.  I don't think we
have evidence that people will be genuinely confused if it's the first
line in the PR template.)