From 4239e8fe97ef064ed5ea2fd89cd65106032f73f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shamoon <4887959+shamoon@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 07:58:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update contributing / development guidelines

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 CONTRIBUTING.md          | 6 +++++-
 docs/more/development.md | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 48f2818da..d3b07697f 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -48,11 +48,15 @@ Please see information in the docs regarding [code formatting with pre-commit ho
 
 By contributing, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under its GNU General Public License.
 
+## Use of AI for pull requests
+
+In general, homepage does not accept "AI-generated" PRs. If you choose to use something like that to aid the development process to generate a significant proportion of the pull request, please make sure this is explicitly stated in the PR itself.
+
 ## References
 
 This document was adapted from the open-source contribution guidelines for [Facebook's Draft](https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
 
-# Automatic Respository Maintenance
+## Automatic Respository Maintenance
 
 The homepage team appreciates all effort and interest from the community in filing bug reports, creating feature requests, sharing ideas and helping other community members. That said, in an effort to keep the repository organized and managebale the project uses automatic handling of certain areas:
 
diff --git a/docs/more/development.md b/docs/more/development.md
index 8e3fac130..ec580cff4 100644
--- a/docs/more/development.md
+++ b/docs/more/development.md
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ Once installed, hooks will run when you commit. If the formatting isn't quite ri
 
 See the [pre-commit documentation](https://pre-commit.com/#install) to get started.
 
+## Preferring self-hosted open-source software
+
+In general, homepage is meant to be a dashboard for 'self-hosted' services and we believe it is a small way we can help showcase this kind of software. While exceptions are made, mostly when there is no viable
+self-hosted / open-source alternative, we ask that any widgets, etc. are developed primarily for a self-hosted tool.
+
 ## New Feature Guidelines
 
 - New features should be linked to an existing feature request with at least 10 'up-votes'. The purpose of this requirement is to avoid the addition (and maintenance) of features that might only benefit a small number of users.