Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/16] MAINTAINERS: be realistic about *-user

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 08:12:33AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 8:00 AM Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> > We should reflect the current status so users don't have unrealistic
> > expectations of how quickly things can get reviewed and merged.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> >
> 
> Reviewed-by: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>

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> A lot of the upstreaming work that's stalled would be ideal to tell claude
> to do,
> but I'm unsure the project's stance on using claude to move code, and git
> log
> 5 different trees to get the original author(s) of the code and make
> trivial compile
> tweaks.

The critical thing we don't want is such tools making changes to the
contents of source files.

Automating the moving around of files is a non-issue.

The use of AI for writing commit messages is arguably in scope of QEMU's
AI policy given that is part of "the contribution", but it is less serious
there, since commit messages don't have a copyright implication on what we
host & distribute.

More important is that the commit messages are accurate and well written.
LLMs have a tendancy to be overly verbose about irrelevant stuff, and of
course the well known danger of hallucinating nonsense. IME that makes it
challenging to benefit from an LLM, due to review & re-writing overheads
you then incurr to validate and fix their output.

I'd be wary of relying on an AI to extract and report on authorship of
code. Accuracy is important there since it implies copyright ownership
associations. Likewise a Signed-off-by tag should be added by humans
only since it is a statement they are complying with the DCO policy.

With regards,
Daniel
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