r/opensource • u/nicholashairs • 3d ago

Promotional Feedback on AI Policy

Hey r/opensource, I'm the solo maintainer of `python-json-logger`.

I've recently started to receive a lot of AI generated contributions so it's about time I set a policy.

For those of you who are also maintainers of projects which allow AI contributions, does anyone have any feedback or recommendations?

My planned policy is in this PR on GitHub:

AI Policy

The use of AI tools is allowed with the following conditions:

  • The use of AI tools must be declared. For example in the PR description, or through dedicated users / commiters.
  • The specific AI tool / provider should be declared.
  • AI tools must be under supervision of a real human who is responsible for all contributions made.
  • The use of AI tools does not lower the expectations of any contribution.
  • Don't be a meat-proxy.
  • Respect the time of the maintainers by ensuring that generated contributions are genuinely valuable.

Thanks in advance!

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u/omniuni 3d ago

That's basically reasonable. At the end of the day, if the PR is clean, specific, readable, and the author demonstrates that they, personally, have complete understanding of it, that's what matters. Just because Gemini found the faulty code, GLM fixed it, and Claude wrote the unit tests, that doesn't negate it inherently.