Last week a group of directors met and reached the conclusion that we needed to solicit some community leader feedback and see if perceptions are similar, and if independent voices understood our general motivation to put into place some sort of guidance. We kept some informal notes from the discussion at the PTG[0], and please feel free to review.

A few takeaways I have:

* Generally there was understanding and consensus *something* was needed from a forward looking point of view.

* It was noted with agreement that some sort of context setting is needed upfront to have these discussions. This revolved around the reality that we have predictive and generative modeling in existence today, and tools are constantly evolving.

* The phrase "attractive nuisance" was used quite a bit with the modifier "at this time", while fully acknowledging forward evolution will occur and we need to be ready for it.

* Community leaders also expressed a great deal of concern on the code review side, also mirroring the informal discussions amongst board members. Consensus sort of revolved around the need to understand how much of the contribution was computer generated, which also mirrors our prior week discussions.

* There is concern over fully-automatic contributions. We, the board, may want to assert any expectations we have around who is making contributions as well.

With that having been said, I believe we should meet again this coming week and see if we have consensus on if some sort of high level policy we could write and hopefully adopt before the end of the year.

Would this coming Thursday, November 2nd be viable to discuss? Perhaps around 1500 UTC? Would another day be better?

Thanks,

-Julia

[0]: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/oct2023-ptg-openinfra-board