Every "no AI contributions" policy is a Level 0 control
Description and use
<p>This week QGIS merged <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/387" rel="noopener noreferrer">QEP #387</a>: "No LLM, AI or agent assisted code contributions are allowed in the qgis/qgis repository." Violators face "code reversion and contributor rights sanctioning." It replaced a human-in-the-loop policy, it passed a vote, it is on master as of October 7. The HN thread is at three hundred comments and counting, split between "rationing attention is fair" and "this will age like milk."</p> <p>The line that settles the whole debate was written by the project itself, in
Problem
<p>This week QGIS merged <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/387" rel="noopener noreferrer">QEP #387</a>: "No LLM, AI or agent assisted code contributions are allowed in the qgis/qgis repository." Violators face "code reversion and contributor rights sanctioning." It replaced a human-in-the-loop policy, it passed a vote, it is on master as of October 7. The HN thread is at three hundred comments and counting, split between "rationing attention is fair" and "this will age like milk."</p> <p>The line that settles the whole debate was written by the project itself, in
Outcome
<p>This week QGIS merged <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/387" rel="noopener noreferrer">QEP #387</a>: "No LLM, AI or agent assisted code contributions are allowed in the qgis/qgis repository." Violators face "code reversion and contributor rights sanctioning." It replaced a human-in-the-loop policy, it passed a vote, it is on master as of October 7. The HN thread is at three hundred comments and counting, split between "rationing attention is fair" and "this will age like milk."</p> <p>The line that settles the whole debate was written by the project itself, in
Evidence
Every "no AI contributions" policy is a Level 0 control
- Record date: 2026-10-12T19:41:13.452Z