Hi Science and Med Team,
I maintain lots of packages related to deep learning and machine
learning, but I think I'm reaching an upperbound. So I'm clearly stating
my future plans about deep learning packages for Debian, lest potential
contributors hesitate to step in and help.
Med team has been added in the recipient list due to their increasing
interest in deep/machine learning, and the coronavirus related works.
[[[ DL frameworks ]]]
My emergy only allows me to cover one modern deep learning framework --
pytorch. I'm very likely unable to help the tensorflow maintenance once
bazel gets ready in our archive. I can keep maintaining some tensorflow
dependencies since some of them are quite stable.
-- I'll only maintain caffe and pytorch. Potential contributors should
feel free to deal with any other DL frameworks.
-- I can provide suggestions, but I'll not provide code.
[[[ CUDA flavor of DL frameworks ]]]
Currently I only have the plan to do the cpu version of pytorch (and
caffe). The cuda version of caffe had been removed by me because I hate
dealing with cuda related stuff in the debian archive.
-- I'll not package the most important CUDA library -- cuDNN -- for
deep learning frameworks. We need other volunteers for this.
-- If someone is willing to maintain cuDNN, I can try to package the
cuda version of pytorch
[[[ ROCm flavor of DL frameworks ]]]
I still don't know how on earth can the ROCm software stack work with
the opensource `amdkfd` kernel driver (debian has already enabled that
driver for our kernel packages) instead of the proprietary version of
`amdkfd`.
-- I'm willing to maintain the ROCm software stack as long as it is
able to work on a Debian system without non-free components.
There is a "ROCm Team" on salsa.
-- the answer to the above question is the only blocker for me to
make further progress about ROCm.
[[[ upper layer applications ]]]
-- I'll not maintain any upper layer applications built upon any deep
learning framework.
-- But I'll maintain ML-Policy to guide the maintenance of these
packages.
-- I may maintain some toy dataset packages for testing DL framework sanity
e.g. src:dataset-fashion-mnist (already in testing and sid)
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These are all things I can do, and I'm not a monoplic maintainer.
Volunteers are always welcome, and helps are always appreciated!
