Hello, I’m a developer and I’d like to ask before submitting, not after.
I’ve read the Generative AI policy, including the line about exceptions for
mature, well-maintained projects. My project is developed with AI assistance
and I state that openly in the README and in AGENTS.md, so I want to ask
directly whether it has any chance under that exception, and what bar you
would want to see.
The app is Unisic (GitHub - unisic/unisic: Screenshot & screen-recorder for Linux. · GitHub), a screenshot and screen
recording tool for Linux. GPL-3.0, no telemetry, no account, Wayland
first and working on X11 too. It uses only the supported capture paths:
xdg-desktop-portal, KWin ScreenShot2 on Plasma, PipeWire for video.
How it is built, honestly: I use AI agents to write code, and I review every
change line by line before it lands. I decide what gets built and what gets
rejected, I test on real desktops (KDE, GNOME, wlroots, COSMIC), and I fix the
bugs that come out of that. It is not a wrapper or a one-prompt app.
Where the project is today: first commit 2026-07-07, 341 commits, releases
From 0.1 (on git from 0.3) to 0.7.5, packages for Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, and Arch
plus an AppImage, 10 unit tests, and an in-app smoke test, 5 interfaces
languages, and one accepted translation PR from an outside contributor. I know
Three weeks is not a long track record, which is exactly why I’m asking rather
than assuming.
Two things I want to flag. The Spanish and Italian translations
were machine-generated (English and Polish are written by me, and French came from a human contributor), and I read that
This is not accepted, so I plan to replace them. And the Flatpak manifest is
It is ready and passes flatpak-builder-lint, but I have not opened a submission PR.
because I would rather hear a no here than violate the policy there.
So my question is: is an exception possible for a project like this, and if so,
What would you need to see before it would be worth submitting?
Thanks for your time.