@us3r1d That’s a fair point, and you’re right. I don’t actually need anyone to agree that an LLM is “just a tool”; people can think what they like about it. All I’d ask is that the output be judged on its merits, not pre-judged by how it was made. And you’re right that we should move from arguing about LLMs to deciding what to do in practice.
On the practical side, here’s one concrete thing. Back in March, on the HaikuPorts list, Adrien (@PulkoMandy) himself pointed out that the “only committers can vote” rule belongs to the Haiku project and doesn’t apply to HaikuPorts, which has no written governance rules, and that we should “have a proper discussion with everyone” and build a consensus. I think he was right then. A decision that affects the whole community works best when it’s discussed somewhere the whole community can actually take part; otherwise the people most affected end up excluded, and the result feels imposed rather than agreed.
So my suggestion is simply this: keep the technical work where it belongs, on the mailing list and GitHub, but community-wide policy decisions should be made, and visibly recorded, here on the forum, where every user and developer can read along and weigh in.
That’s it from me. Thanks for keeping this on-topic.