RFC: The Binutils and LLM generated patches

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Jose,

>>    The proposed text also invents two new tags for LLM generated
>>    contributions:  Generated-By:  and  LLM-Query:  I just pulled these
>>    out of thin air, so feel to suggest better ones, or tell me that they
>>    are pointless.
> 
> If these tags are to be used only for trivial/non-copyrightable changes,
> as I think/hope the policy establishes, I personally see no point in
> having these tags.  Trivial changes are trivial regardless of how they
> are composed, so who cares whether a LLM was involved in it?

Ah - because I am hoping to establish a precedent.  If it becomes accepted
that LLM generated patches must identify themselves, and use the tags I
have suggested then when/if we ever start accepting non-trivial LLM patches
we will already have the framework in place for how those patches should be
annotated.


> If I create a patch that removes trailing whitespaces in a file using
> sed, or a patch that renames a variable in the whole project using
> coccinelle, Generated-By would also apply to them.  Still, we don't feel
> the need to do so.

Well I cannot force anyone to use these tags, so in the end it will be up
the contributor to decide if they can be bothered.  I agree that for
trivial patches it is not really going to matter, but I do like the idea
of setting up a precedent for future non-trivial submissions.

Cheers
   Nick