LLM contribution policy for Notepad++?
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It seems to have passed without comment so far, but the trunk of the Notepad++ GitHub repository now contains work partly authored by a coding agent:
$ git log --pretty="format:%h (%cs) %s %(trailers:key=co-authored-by) %d" | rg -i "(claude|codex|copilot)" 37f76d419 (2026-09-27) Fix spurious NPPN_READONLYCHANGED notification on file deletion Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> d8ceb40a8 (2026-09-27) Fix call-tip parameter highlighting confused by comma in string literal Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>I’m surprised only because I haven’t seen any update to the contribution guidelines regarding AI-generated submissions.
It’s increasingly common for projects to address the issue in public (the way Scintilla recently has, for example).
I guess my question is whether or not @donho has an AI policy, and, if so, where can we read it?
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I got a statement of sorts in regard to this request, specifically, this comment:
Using AI to create a PR for an open source project - is it a good thing or a bad thing? I have no judgement on that.
For me, the only criterion that matters is whether the merged code will be maintainable in the future. On this point, I have to say that AI-generated PRs (I can usually tell during code review), often do not meet the critera in their current state - but many human devs don’t either.
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