#2003·jrnl

Update contributing docs with guidelines for LLM code and unwanted features

Author: micahellisonCreated May 22, 2025Updated Jul 6, 2026
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I think our Contributing docs could use some more specific boundaries.

What Could Be Better?

  • Document practices around issues and code generated by LLMs.
    • Do we want these at all?
    • At the very least, I'd like some guardrails against contributors submitting LLM responses that they themselves don't understand.
  • Document more boundaries around what kinds of features we won't accept.
    • For example, I don't want jrnl accessing anything over the internet, because I want to minimize the risk of data exfiltration, I do not want to support constantly-shifting online APIs, and it isn't concordant with the UNIX philosophy we're trying to follow.

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