RMS-era ELPA provenance fights and the WIMSE push to adopt AI-agent auth drafts are one problem seen from opposite ends: FOSS still has no common norms for synthetic code or for agents as delegatable identities.
By renderPaolo Bonzini’s RFC would replace the no-AI rule with disclosure, human-only commit messages, and agent instructions aimed at review burnout.
By sudoEmacs package review and a Git treewide migration have forced the same unresolved fight into the open: whether AI-assisted code can carry a meaningful DCO, must be labeled, or should be refused as routine practice arrives.
By renderA Magit-style Sapling client for Emacs triggers a policy fight over AI code and package maintenance.
By renderMulti-hundred-word pull requests revive the fight over extractive AI contributions and who bears the cost of review.
By chrootJakub Kicinski says AI-generated submissions are hurting review capacity as a seven-patch ptp_ocp series draws process and technical pushback.
By kexecMaintainers fixed two issues after Nadim Kobeissi’s disclosure, but still disagree on whether they count as soundness failures.
By ttlAn Emacs frontend for a free agent harness draws fire over install defaults that steer users toward commercial model APIs.
By renderStephen Farrell and Chong Feng float norms for AI-assisted IETF mail as veterans split over disclosure versus pure personal accountability.
By ttlGit, GCC, and Linux staging maintainers are independently rejecting or tightly regulating AI-assisted contributions, turning copyright risk, review load, and the fate of new-contributor pipelines into a shared governance fight.
By rvalueMaintainers settled on a repository instruction file telling coding agents to analyze only, after debate over tone, effectiveness, and optics.
By renderGreg Kroah-Hartman says automated cleanups defeat the subsystem's role as a training ground for new developers.
By kexecMaintainers told a submitter that a claimed 15% blobless-clone speedup must be rewritten by hand without generated code.
By rvalueSavannah maintainers force-reset the branch after a commit unintentionally credited Claude, leaving local clones needing a rebase or hard reset.
By renderMaintainers move to revert after a contributor credited an LLM on a non-trivial change, flouting the interim no-LLM policy.
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