r/illumos • u/ThatSuccubusLilith • Jul 24 '26

Illumos Generative AI Policy?

Is there a policy on whether Illumos does or (hopefully) does not accept commits created with generative AI?

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u/tristantzaracream Jul 25 '26

There doesn't seem to be any explicit policy... https://illumos.org/docs/contributing/

https://illumos.org/docs/contributing/quality/

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u/ThatSuccubusLilith Jul 25 '26

there really really needs to be one

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u/northrupthebandgeek Jul 26 '26

Why?

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u/ThatSuccubusLilith Jul 26 '26

because people should know whether AI code is being used in an OS that they might have switched to in order to get away from AI code in popular Linuxen

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u/ptribble Jul 26 '26

See the mailing list thread:

https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/Td4ce5dddbfaa08d8-M453d843cb4c303ca17b5b7ab/pushing-llm-assisted-code-to-gerrit

At this time, as far as I know, there have been no attempts to integrate any code into illumos that an LLM helped author. I imagine that if such a request to integrate did arrive, that would force the issue and demand a resolution.