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FYI: they don't accept AI contributions.

From experience, AI is a 10x (or more) booster for getting a new device up and running - or porting mainline Linux to those super old (3.x) kernel forks.

I'll not contribute back anymore - this is a real bummer, but I guess they made their choice.

Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704503#49745309

https://docs.nura.eco/policies-and-processes/development/ai-...

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The policy you linked explains its reasoning pretty clearly. So you feel better about their decision, please re-read it with an open mind and a "why would a very ideologically-motivated copyleft free software project think this" attitude.

They'll come around, eventually.

Or get forked to irrelevance.

Can you give an example of a point in their rationale that they'll "come around" on, and why? I mentioned it because it looks solid to me.

I don't think they'll be forked to irrelevance. Even if I put aside my skepticism of the quality or longevity of AI-assisted projects, I don't think there's a bigger audience for a Nura that's less principled on the issues they mentioned.

Someone should do a fork that accepts ai assisted contributions, with a spin in the old name: postpostmarketos...

A pro-AI fork would be nice for both "sides"; we could experimentally see whether it helps or hurts. In a few months-years, we should be able to see whether it's faster/buggier/better/worse.

I've seen a few people react this way, promising to never contribute when AI is banned; invariably, it turns out they hadn't been contributing upstream anyways.

https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/denysvitali

https://gitlab.com/sm8250-mainline/linux/-/merge_requests/8

https://wiki.nura.eco/wiki/Special:Contributions/Denvit

https://blog.denv.it/posts/pmos-k3s-cluster/

So… a handful of patches for a single phone from like a couple years ago?

The contributions won’t be missed.

Can I see your contributions to the project?

People are more inclined to contribute when it's easy than when it's hard. What of it?

Contributing may be easier, but stopping the project becoming a harder-to-debug mess is more of a priority.

Good for them. AI (especially the way you're describing it) is nothing but cancer.

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