Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/1104195/

One of the dominant themes of 2026 has been the debate within development
projects about the terms under which LLM-written contributions should be
accepted — if, indeed, they should be accepted at all. The Git project has not been immune to this
trend; the topic was discussed
at the recent Git Contributor’s Summit. In this case, the path to a
resolution may be somewhat circuitous; the project, which has never been
governed as a democracy, is considering adopting a voting process as a way
of bringing the discussion to an acceptable conclusion.