update

src/backend/manage_requests.py

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ def set_eval_request(api: HfApi, eval_request: EvalRequest, set_to_status: str,
                     repo_id=hf_repo, repo_type="dataset")
 
 
-def get_eval_requests(job_status: list, local_dir: str, hf_repo: str) -> list[EvalRequest]:
+def get_eval_requests(job_status: list, local_dir: str, hf_repo: str, do_download: bool = True) -> list[EvalRequest]:
     """Get all pending evaluation requests and return a list in which private
     models appearing first, followed by public models sorted by the number of
     likes.
@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ def get_eval_requests(job_status: list, local_dir: str, hf_repo: str) -> list[Ev
     Returns:
         `list[EvalRequest]`: a list of model info dicts.
     """
-    my_snapshot_download(repo_id=hf_repo, revision="main", local_dir=local_dir, repo_type="dataset", max_workers=60)
+    if do_download:
+        my_snapshot_download(repo_id=hf_repo, revision="main", local_dir=local_dir, repo_type="dataset", max_workers=60)
+
     json_files = glob.glob(f"{local_dir}/**/*.json", recursive=True)
 
     eval_requests = []