Is Automatic1111 interest is the project faltering

[bmaltais]

I have observed a lack of commits in the recent days and a lot less interactions from Automatic1111. What is going on? This kind of started after the NovelAI debacle.

PR are accumulating faster than they get merged...

[hd-x]

I would say it is in a more normal state now... what was happening before was madness :)
edit: conspiracy theory: stability AI hired AUTOMATIC

[Kosinkadink]

This project is getting massive, to the point where imo it is becoming unreasonable for a single person to manage all the PRs, reported issues, and the like. Automatic has been grinding super hard the past several weeks, but it's not like this is paying the bills, so it's only natural that he'd have to step back for a bit. Although, calling it "stepping back" seems overly dramatic because like @hd-x said, having only a few hours a day to manage an open source project is much more typical.

And I wouldn't say it started right after the NovelAI stuff. He's been grinding almost daily until a few days ago. For the project to continue at the same pace, I think more people will need to be given permission to merge things, at least in a separate branch. The scale of the project is growing too much for just a single maintainer.

[Kilvoctu]

Yeah, if comparing to another massive project, there is C:DDA with a whole team of developers also doing it as a hobby, and ~1700 contributors. They have a development Discord server, too. On top of all that, the community there is very highly technically inclined.
They can barely handle all the issues and PRs.

Here you have mostly 1 person managing the entire project, with a couple hundred contributors. A large portion of the community are artists or otherwise not-technical people who are new to github, python, etc. There is also the controversy of the license which is probably causing a lot of potential contributors to shy away.

[BunnyViking]

AND there's been a few breaking commits recently so stepping back for a break makes a lot of sense. No one wants to be fixing accidents rather than making new stuff work.

[kidol]

wtf give him a break... 🤣

[bmaltais]

I guess I got used to the crazy speed at which things were merged ;-) I know, I am not blaming the man at all. He deserves a break.

[ShinCoreSys]

i think that we all have gotten used to the insane speed that AUTOMATIC1111 has been working this past few weeks.

when you are used to seeing an avg of 10-15 commits per day (one time i logged in and there were over 40 in a 24hr period), its easy to see no commits for over 24hrs and wonder.

and we all need to fucking knock it off. for fucks sake, auto1111 is a person, a human being just like the rest of us. prob has a day job, and adult responsibilities and all the normal shit that comes with normal life. this kneejerk reaction conspiracy bullshit needs to get buried. its not constructive, and has no redeeming value.

what we need to be doing, as a community, is fucking helping the man. hes provided us with tools that are far above what anyone offers out there right now, and not asked for a single goddamn cent. someone posted a few weeks ago urging him to open a donation link or something, and he declined, saying that bringing money into the equation didnt feel right to him.

W
T
F
man.

so if he wont take money, then LETS HELP HIM. donate your time, your intelligence, skill, resources if he will accept it. take some of the load off of him, and the "SPICE WILL FLOW" AKA, the commits. ppl need to stop making comments about the pile of pull requests and tickets and start HELPING.

cause if he burns out, the we will have lost a valuable contributor to our open source community. and i would hate to see him go.

[salocharly]

my dudes, I am surprised Automatic seems to be a human and not an artificial intelligence.
This man is not only fast and he is also extremely good at what he does.

I think it's time the community here pulls it together and finds a way to send some funds his way.
Mind you he could be making some real $$ doing this type of work for a private company.

Sir automatic if you are listening please open a Patreon account I will be the first to join.

We want you full-time here I hoping am not the only one thinking about this.

[PhreakHeaven]

@bmaltais

From AUTOMATIC1111:

Contact

"I have been keeping up with SD less lately, which means I am more likely to miss new models.
If you think something is missing from this list, contact me with details.
plonk#2327"

Found here: Contact

[jav12z]

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