<![CDATA[LLM contribution policy for Notepad++?]]>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?

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27671/llm-contribution-policy-for-notepadRSS for NodeWed, 30 Sep 2026 15:22:55 GMTWed, 30 Sep 2026 13:33:15 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to LLM contribution policy for Notepad++? on Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:40:45 GMT]]>@rdipardo ,

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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