AI attributions in commits?

Development
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Hi devs,

I don’t remember discussing this officially.

Do we want to have AI attributions in git commits or not?

For ex for CC, that means having Co-Authored-By: Claude <model> <noreply@anthropic.com> at the end of commits.

On my side I think it’s a good idea for transparency and the info alone can make us review more some commits or PRs.

WDYT?

Thanks

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I‘m more reading code then writing. I would like to have that infromation.

+1

3

Yes, +1 for the transparency.

Which should also means refusing a pull request which has obviously been mostly written by an IA but does not have this information.

4

+1

5

Will this be part of the contribtuin requirements, ex. https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing#HFixingbugsornewFeatures2FImprovements? I don’t mind to have it as officially rule or guide. But I don’t understand why to declear it this way

If a user asks the AI ​​to provide a commit, it will automatically add itself to the commit signature - isn’t that enough? I noticed this while analyzing code with Cursor AI and looking at what the AI ​​agent can write as a resolution, and it has already provided me with a commit message with its name at the end.

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yes for the same reason: transparency.

Yes it’s enough and this is what is called an attribution :slight_smile: But it’s not true that it will automatically add it: that depends on what you told it to do (you can ask it to not do it for example).

The whole idea is to make it transparent when a LLM has been used to help write a contribution.

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+1,

Thanks,
Marius

8

+1

Thanks,
Alex

9

+1, thank you!

10

Thanks everyone, this is now agreed. I’ve documented it on dev.xwiki.org in a new “Working with AI” section that we can add to as we take more decisions about AI usage:

I’ve also added a Recommended tooling subsection, which was not part of this discussion: if you use an AI coding agent, it’s recommended to install the XWiki plugin, which knows the XWiki dev guidelines (including this attribution rule), and, for those who have access to it, the XWiki Security plugin from xwiki-dev-security-llm for in-depth security reviews. Shout if you disagree with it.

Thanks