I completely agree. No notes. Campbell
On November 12, 2024 11:53:48 PM EST, Sven-Hendrik Haase <svenst...@archlinux.org> wrote: >Hey all, > >There's been some discussion about this via chat but no action has been taken. >Some time ago, ollama-gemma2-2b was uploaded to [extra] which has caused some >discussion for various reasons. > >I'm not writing this mail to address or open up the discussion for ethical or >political concerns. This is about pragmatism. With the current state of >things, I don't think we should have any LLMs or other GenAI models in >official repos. I think it would be much more practical to offer downloaders >such as huggingface-cli or ollama instead. GenAI models become out of date >every other week and they tend to be rather large too. Downloaders allow users >to download these models from specialized hosters at good speeds and to easily >stay up to date. > >I don't think we're doing anyone a service by offering outdated GenAI models >in the repos. > >This mail is explicitly NOT about other ML model types such as rnnoise. Those >tend to be small and unchanging. They should stay in repos where it makes >sense and if there's software that uses them (such as Mumble in this >particular example). > >I propose this: > >- Drop ollama-gemma2-2b >- Forbid other GenAI models from entering official repos for the time being > >What do you guys think? > >Cheers, >Sven
