Post #4116105
2026-07-25 14:33 UTC
There was a good technical reason for it, but at this stage, the back-and-forth and permanent need for justification was draining, and I decided to eventually withdraw my PR. In that case, I think the negative feelings were as much about the objective risks (who would maintain that code, etc), as they were about the subjective feelings that accepting this kind of contribution would open a pandora box of (potentially useful) LLM features that do not deeply 'belong' to the project ethos. 5/9
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@severin@hci.social 2026-07-25 14:34
Accepting a PR from a new contributor implicitly means accepting the contributor her/himself into the project: a technical contribution in exchange of social recognition. But this only make sense as long as the contributor has actually contributed a significant effort. In my case, I did not code anything. Were defining a problem, supervising a LLM, testing the results, participating to the follow-up discussions, sufficient contributions? maybe not. @doctormo@floss.social you might have a different take? 6/9