Licensing Package Sources
Hey everyone, As part of the implementation of RFC 40 [0], we're about to start sending out emails to everyone who has previously contributed to any of our package sources in any capacity. We have gathered around 5000 unique emails and will space sending out over a few days to make sure we don't run into rate limits. Contributors will receive a single email listing all their contributions. Gathering the emails was done on a best-effort basis. If you have contributed to Arch before and didn't receive an email, please contact us at package-sources-licens...@archlinux.org. Cheers, Rafael and Sven [0] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/40 OpenPGP_0xB4EFE6DC59FAE118.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Let's drop ollama-gemma2-2b and forbid GenAI models
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 GenAI models become out of date every other week and they tend to be rather large too.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 I don't think we're doing anyone a service by offering outdated GenAI models in the repos.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 OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
