open-slopware/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing Pull Requests

To contribute to this list, file a pull request adding it to the appropriate category, along with any known alternatives. The pull request must include links to evidence (see Criteria).

Title the pull request one of the following:

• Add <software-name>
• Add <software-name> as an Alternative for <software-name>
• Add <software-name> as an Alternative for <category>
• Update <software-name>
• Remove <software-name>

Important

Please do your best to research alternatives to the slopware before submitting a PR. It's important to elevate projects that aren't drinking the slop <3

Please make sure to only submit a PR for 1 section at a time, otherwise it is more difficult to coordinate between multiple Issues and PRs.

Other tips for keeping the repo tidy and making sure we don't duplicate efforts:

• Search for the software name in the Issues and Pull Requests of this repo. (Great minds think alike ❤️)
  • If the software is already reported in an open Issue, but not as a PR, open your PR linking to the open issue with the following description, so the related issue gets automatically closed if the PR gets merged:

    - Closes #123
    

• If the software is already reported in an open issue and as an open PR leave a comment in the PR with the new or updated evidence(s).

Criteria

The criteria for being included in this repository are any of following tags. You can click each one to jump to the definition and acceptable evidence:

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Alternatives should not contain any slop as defined by our tagging system above.

Style guide

When submitting new software to this list, please check out the style guide to ensure you are conforming to our community agreed upon standards.

Removal

Any project here may be removed as long as the following become true, even if prior LLM-authored code remains:

1. The project establishes a "No genAI" policy, where the core developers commit to no longer using LLMs for developing that project in particular and no longer accepting obvious LLM-authored contributions, and state the policy prominently in their repo.
2. Any genAI functionality of the project itself is removed in its entirety. "Kill switches" are insufficient.
3. Any LLM friendly files/folders are either poisoned or removed entirely.

When submitting a project for removal, please include a link to the evidence that they have created a "No genAI" policy. You can also submit PRs to update if a project stops using something like AI code reviews, but keeps a permissive AI policy. Updates are always welcome.

Issues

Issues are meant primarily for discussing if something should be added or questions regarding clarification. An issue that says "Add x software" will be treated as a call to community action and labeled with ready-for-pr, provided it meets the above criteria. This is not a problem, but does not necessarily mean the core maintainers of this repo will create that PR for you. However it does mean you or someone else in the community is clear to go ahead and submit a PR for that software. This is maintained in the community's free time, so please understand that there will sometimes be a delay when a PR is created for you.

Please make sure to only submit an Issue for 1 piece of software or section at a time, otherwise it is more difficult to coordinate between multiple Issues and PRs.

This is not a place to discuss what you think an "ethical" LLM/AI is. We will close any Issues opened asking for advice on AI/LLM usage.

This is also not a place to open an issue to the effect of "think of the centrists".

Helping with kind eyes

Maybe you don't need/want to open an Issue or Pull Request to this repo, but you still want to help. Here's what you can do. Take a look through the:

• Issues labeled with more-kind-eyes-please or awaiting-upstream-feedback
• Pull Requests labeled with more-kind-eyes-please or awaiting-upstream-feedback

In either case, one thing you can do is react positively to a given upstream issue, pull request, or discussion thread. If you're already a contributor to that project, you may also leave a comment. You must do so kindly though! We do not approve of anyone reaching out in a rude manner to any other projects. If you have no connection to project, the best thing you can do is an emoji react or upvote on the opening discussion topic or to a comment where AI is called out as bad. It's unwise to pop into a discussion for a project you do not use and have no interest in using and only adds noise to the conversation, which could overwhelm the maintainers. Please be cautious and courteous. If we find out you were threatening or expressed any form of bigotry, you will receive a ban from this repo.

Social media

We would appreciate it if you did not mention this repo on social media or in chats in order to shame a project or community. Do not make posts like, " should be added to the open-slopware list", especially if you are tagging a maintainer or using a project's hashtag.