I completely agree. No notes. Campbell On November 12, 2024 11:53:48 PM EST, Sven-Hendrik Haase <svenstaro@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 GenAI models become out of date every other week and they tend to be rather large too.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I don't think we're doing anyone a service by offering outdated GenAI models in the repos.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