Regarding the policy proposal
Akseli Lahtinen
akselmo at akselmo.dev
Sun Sep 27 22:49:25 BST 2026
On Monday 28 September 2026 00:13:10 Eastern European Summer Time Akseli Lahtinen wrote:
> On Sunday 27 September 2026 23:28:39 Eastern European Summer Time Thiago Masato Costa Sueto wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As most of you know, the last LLM policy proposal draft got rather heated,
> > to say the least. It was locked and made confidential.
> >
> > I'd like to overtake the work for a new proposal. I've been brainstorming
> > this idea for several months at this point, even making a stance document
> > for my own personal use (with decent reception from the people I showed it
> > to).
> >
> > I was recommended to keep the new proposal private to be workshopped with
> > well established contributors first, and only when it's mature enough make
> > it public.
> >
> > Since a significant number of people was at Akademy, it's reasonable to
> > wait at least a week for people to rest and settle in after returning from
> > the trip. That's the minimum timeframe for people to actually have a chance
> > to engage with this subject I believe.
> >
> > I actually already have an initial draft ready. It already addresses most
> > of the issues present in the previous draft, with some opinionatedness of
> > course. I'm rather confident it should have generally good reception, and
> > that we can focus only on working the thing out and seeing where it goes
> > from there.
> >
> > As to how to organize this "private sharing with core contributors", I was
> > thinking of a temporary private repository with collaborator invites so we
> > can make comments on individual parts more easily (since Gitlab lacks
> > private MRs). I feel like the mailing list made the discussion very
> > difficult to keep track of. We could also just do the Easy Way and make a
> > confidential issue, but I was recommended against it, as the Confidential
> > setting would still include all people with dev accounts.
>
> I believe this is a good way to go about it.
> Despite the situation, this topic still needs to be worked through.
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Thiago / Herz
> >
>
> - Akseli
>
>
>
Disregard, for some reason kmail sent it to this mailing list instead :(
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