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Tsirkin" , Alistair Francis , Daniel P . =?utf-8?Q?Berrang=C3=A9?= , Fabiano Rosas , Warner Losh , Philippe =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] docs/devel: relax policy on AI-generated contributions In-Reply-To: (Kevin Wolf's message of "Tue, 6 Oct 2026 10:41:00 +0200") References: <20260930085433.830743-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> <20260930085433.830743-2-pbonzini@redhat.com> <69164823-7271-4d59-9684-637bec454a1d@redhat.com> <293cb972-35e1-1922-0834-601e2491a7a6@eik.bme.hu> User-Agent: mu4e 1.14.4-pre5; emacs 30.1 Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:44:37 +0100 Message-ID: <87mrsrjh8a.fsf@draig.linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::131; envelope-from=alex.bennee@linaro.org; helo=mail-lf1-x131.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: qemu development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Kevin Wolf writes: > Am 05.10.2026 um 23:09 hat BALATON Zoltan geschrieben: >> On Fri, 2 Oct 2026, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> > I agree completely with how you phrased the first and third. I agree >> > that the second bullet is a risk too, but it's mitigated by "LLM-creat= ed >> > contributions will be held to a higher standard than human-created one= s, >> > because LLMs make it easier to write tests" (and by maintainers being >> > able to >>=20 >> Tests need to be reviewed too to be able to trust them so that does not = help >> against overloading reviewers with generated patches but burdens them ev= en >> more: they will also have to review the tests before the code. > > The required level of trust for tests is comparatively low, so it's much > easier to review tests to a sufficient level than say device emulation > code. > > If a new test looks plausible, fails before the fix and passes > afterwards, it's more useful that what we had before, even if it's > technically buggy in some corner case. And also easier to rip out in the unlikely event it infringes anything. But broadly having a test* is better than having no test. > > Kevin * modulo the effects on our coverage. --=20 Alex Benn=C3=A9e Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro