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Btw, if anyone has experience with the open source community in general and llama.cpp in specific, I would greatly appreciate some advice. I’m facing a bit of an interpersonal issue that I really hope is resolved without any ill will. Here is the context:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wr5ylm/comment...

Any advice for what I can do? Due to this, I cannot create a PR or issue in the llama.cpp repository. However, I am worried about bothering the maintainers on other channels in case it aggravates them further. Thank you for your help!

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> Any advice for what I can do?

Email that author (email can usually be found via GitHub, or contact via other private way they've shared somewhere) and explain the situation, don't lambast them publicly on social media or similar ways. If that doesn't work, do the same but for another maintainer. Don't spam all of them straight up, wait a week or something before contacting someone else.

That would be inadvisable as the maintainer (?) in question's GitHub bio states:

> Emailing me about a temporary ban will result in a permanent one instead.

As far as I can tell the ban was given based on a single accidental ping to the maintainer, who then reviewed the draft PR before realizing it was not for the mainline llama.cpp repo.

hopefully someone on the team sees this and fixes the situation, otherwise, if it's good, i'm sure somebody else will open the PR. thanks for your contribution.

I understand this repository must be under siege effectively with how popular it is, but the team needs to come up with a decent way to handle this. The current climate with Nvidia buying Hugging Face who effectively owns the llama.cpp team there’s a lot of discourse around their control of the team that’s negative.

Just hard fork the project. Frankly, llama.cpp is so badly written that these kind of speedups are trivial, and a hard fork (or a total rewrite) has been needed for the longest time.

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