What do you think it’ll happen and what do you want to happen?

Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the project. After collecting a variety of proposals, voting has now commenced for Debian developers to decide how comfortable they are with AI / Large Language Model contributions in the project or not.

The choices being considered for this Debian general resolution (GR) include:

[ ] Choice 1: Ban LLM contributions from Debian via Social Contract

[ ] Choice 2: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions with conditions

[ ] Choice 3: Reject LLMs as far as practical, update Code of Conduct

[ ] Choice 4: Accept AI contributions for Debian specific work

[ ] Choice 5: Responsible Use of Generative AI

[ ] Choice 6: A cautious approach to generative AI

[ ] Choice 7: Debian is created by humans

[ ] Choice 8: Avoid the use of LLM: climate destruction is a deal breaker

[ ] Choice 9: None of the above

All the details on each of those choices can be found via the Debian.org vote page.

Additional details in this mailing list post with the voting details on the general resolution. The voting period began at midnight and is set to run through end of day 28 August.

      • TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml
        6·
        1 day ago

        Long time Debian user and governance appreciator. Welcome. If you want some schizophrenia inducing reading material you should go back and check the long and well documented history of Debian voting.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          1 day ago

          especially the adoption of systemd that was decided by only 4 people back around 2014. lol

          • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
            5·
            21 hours ago

            Where did you pull that number from? https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_initsystems/results.txt

            The smallest difference between a systemd option and a “not-only-systemd option” I see is

            Option 2 defeats Option 4 by ( 211 - 177) = 34 votes.

            And bear in mind that condorcet selects the most agreeable option, not just the majority option.

            And it makes sense: the most likely contender at the time was upstart, which didn’t stand the test of time AFAIK (I don’t think the systemd hater crowd still uses that)

            So it ended up the right decision. Would they have decided differently if other good init systems had existed already? Maybe, but they didn’t.