Re: [PATCH 1/4] docs/devel: relax policy on AI-generated contributions

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

On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 12:46:17PM +0200, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2026, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > +Prohibited use of AI
> > +''''''''''''''''''''
> > +
> > +The QEMU community is a collaboration between humans, not AI agent
> > +façades. The following items MUST be written by humans:
> 
> Is that correct English spelling of facade? I don't mind it, just looks a
> bit fancy to me.

façade would be the more correct option, but in practice I rarely see
it used, presumably becase there is a  'c' key on keyboards and not
a 'ç' and people take the easy way out.

> > +
> > +- cover letters and commit messages
> > +
> > +- responses to reviewer comments
> > +
> > +- issue descriptions or comments
> > +
> > +Light copy editing of human-written text with an AI is allowed.
> 
> What does "copy editing" mean? Should this say that writing the above by a
> human in native language and translating by LLM to English is allowed? For
> translation it's probably good enough now and that could allow contributors
> who can't write English but I agree the LLM should not generate the text for
> the listed items.

Yep, I'd consider "copy editing" to cover tweaking grammar / spelling
of text, especially to assist people who english as a second language,
but generally avoid anything substantive enough to pose a danger of
changing the meaning of text. Though you can't entirely avoid that
danger of changed meaning when fixing grammar, IMHO, it is likely to
be an acceptable tradeoff.

With regards,
Daniel
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