Ok, bye bye [LWN.net]

Ok, bye bye

Posted Jul 23, 2026 16:58 UTC (Thu) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: Ok, bye bye by marcH
Parent article: Codeberg: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

>I don't think the decision is that binary.

Actually, it's very binary.
To me the text is very clear that they don't like AI. Which is fine. But that is a major impedance mismatch between Codeberg and me. No matter the details.

I have set all my repositories to private and I am going to delete everything withing a couple of weeks if they stay by that decision.
How else could I *sanely* handle this?
I am not going to start a review of my projects and determine the percentage of AI-isms in the code. Especially not, if the theshold for when a project goes bad is not even known.

I have projects that are 100% generated (and then manually reviewed/fixed) and projects that are 100% human written. But I am not going to put any work into finding out the exact percentage for any given project. That's just fully wasted time for no gain whatsoever.

>The reasons why it matters are very well explained in the blog

Nope. It doesn't matter for *my* projects. No matter what anybody else writes in their blogs.
My projects, my rules.
Codeberg's hosting, Codeberg's rules.
Really simple.
Their ruling is that I hurt FLOSS. Therefore, I leave.

Ok, bye bye

Posted Jul 23, 2026 17:13 UTC (Thu) by sionescu (subscriber, #59410) [Link] (1 responses)

> I have projects that are 100% generated (and then manually reviewed/fixed) and projects that are 100% human written.

> But I am not going to put any work into finding out the exact percentage for any given project. That's just fully wasted time for no gain whatsoever.

These two are in contradiction. Somehow I don't really believe you said that in good faith. Good riddance.

Ok, bye bye

Posted Jul 23, 2026 17:24 UTC (Thu) by mb (subscriber, #50428) [Link]

Remembering the 100% projects is trivial.
The hard part are the in-between projects.
Especially, if the threshold is apparently held secret. So I can't even make a decision, even if I knew how much AI a certain project was.

But even for the 100% human projects I am certainly not going to restrict myself in the future, just because Codeberg is in my automated push chain. I just removed it.

>Somehow I don't really believe you said that in good faith.

And I believe Codeberg is not acting in good faith.
You can see that in the headline:

>Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

Wrong, Codeberg project.
It's not *your* or anybody else's FLOSS and it's not commons.
The projects are owned by the authors who built them with whatever tool they choose.