Re: [PATCH] Documentation: propose community voting process

["Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2026, at 00:51, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On 2026-10-22 at 07:29:26, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2026, at 22:03, Emily Shaffer wrote:
>> > As we discussed in the Contributor Summit this past September[1], there's
>> > interest in taking a formal community vote to decide whether and how to accept
>> > AI contributions. The topic is of course a very contentious one, and I don't
>> > think that we're going to come to general consensus the way we have on most
>> > other concerns in the past.
>> 
>> The vote will pass. Those who work on Git at least once a month work for
>> tech companies. Those tech companies are now AI companies. The votes
>> will happen to drift towards agreement with their management.
>
> I do usually work on Git at least once a month and I do work for a tech
> company, although I sent my first patch while I was in university.
> Despite what some people might believe, I don't parrot my employer's
> company line from my personal account.  Even when I'm speaking for my
> employer, I don't speak in ways that I don't personally believe in
> because I'm a person of integrity.  To the contrary, I think most people
> who know me know that I'm a person who calls it as they see it.
>
> I think anyone who was at the Contributor Summit or has read my emails
> to the list knows how I feel about LLMs and how I vote as a contributor
> will not be influenced by my employer.  I do think, though, that this is
> a reason that votes should be secret because that prevents people from
> having to prove their votes to others.

I was not being precise. That was about being *paid*
to work *on Git* and with some regularity. And it
would only *drift towards* agreement with managemt in
the aggregate. A further clarification. This would
not hold if the group of people who work on X
is small.

I don't know who or what “Despite what some 
people might believe” is about and I don't care.

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