• Servo's achievements: Servo shows it can build a browser with a modern, parallel layout engine at a fraction of the cost of big incumbents due to powerful Rust tooling, a strong community, and thorough documentation.
• AI policy stance: Servo should build without generative AI tools like GitHub Copilot. The AI policy was inspired by Gentoo's policy and has influenced others. The TSC voted to relax the ban on AI contributions, which was a mistake. The TSC is called to explicitly reaffirm that Copilot is not welcome and keep it that way indefinitely.
• Potential exceptions: Exceptions for using AI tools should start in the community and focus on specific tools for specific purposes. For example, in speech recognition and machine translation, tools with large language models may be useful in some cases but have potential issues. Reviewing these tools should be a community-driven process.
• Your feedback: Feedback from the community on various platforms shows that the overall consensus is against using generative AI tools in Servo. There are concerns about the effectiveness and ethics of these tools in technical writing and other aspects.
• On governance: There were concerns about Servo's governance process leading to the decision. The discussion often happened async on Zulip and public minutes were missing. There was no consistent structure for moving from consensus to voting or for community consultation. The author didn't participate in the extensive discussion due to being on leave and lack of bandwidth.