Seeking your thoughts on LLM-generated contributions

[Denver Gingerich]

Hi OpenWrt contributors!

We at Software Freedom Conservancy (OpenWrt's fiscal home) have been hearing from member projects like OpenWrt that people are asking whether they can submit code to these projects that was generated by large language models (LLMs), sometimes called AI coding assistants.  We'd like to better understand the nature of these requests, how much LLM-generated code has been offered to these projects, and generally how you're feeling about the situation.

To do this, we will be holding three different sessions, where you are welcome to join and share your thoughts and any details so far on these types of contributions.  The sessions will all be run in the same way with the same topic - we are running three in order to hopefully allow as many people from around the world to attend as possible.

Here are the times that the sessions will be held at:

date -d "2024-10-29 20:00 UTC"
date -d "2024-11-01 14:00 UTC"
date -d "2024-11-06 04:00 UTC"

We'll be meeting in this room for the sessions:

  https://bbb.sfconservancy.org/b/oss-nnj-obi-jea

We are excited to see some of you there and are looking forward to drafting appropriate recommendations based on what we hear!

Denver Gingerich
Director of Compliance
Software Freedom Conservancy