Fedora's Balancing Act: New Guidelines on Vibe Coding Contributions (news.itsfoss.com)

The Fedora Council has released a draft policy governing AI-assisted contributions after a year-long community consultation. The guidelines treat AI outputs as suggestions—not finished work—and place full responsibility on contributors to review, test, and understand anything they submit. The policy calls out low-quality, unverified “AI slop,” encourages noting significant AI assistance in commit messages, allows reviewers to use AI tools but forbids fully automated reviews, and reserves final acceptance decisions for humans. It also bars AI tools from handling code-of-conduct cases, funding evaluations, talk selections, or leadership assessments, and requires opt-in consent for user-facing AI features that share data with external services. For the AI/ML community this is an important precedent: Fedora’s approach balances pragmatic adoption (packaging AI tools and frameworks is encouraged under existing licensing/packaging rules) with transparency, accountability, and infrastructure protection (no aggressive scraping of Fedora resources). Practically, contributors and maintainers will need stronger provenance and testing practices, clearer commit metadata, and possibly CI checks to prove human-reviewed changes. The draft is open for a two-week community review before a formal ticket vote, so the policy could shape how major open-source projects integrate LLMs into development and governance workflows going forward.