Dear MXNet community, I'd like to discuss start voting on a MXNet 2 Alpha release soon. As you all know, ASF policy requires that any publication of MXNet outside our development community must be endorsed by the PPMC and Incubator via a release vote. According to the ASF Release policy, 'Releases that only represent a project milestone and are intended only for bleeding-edge developers working outside the project are called "alpha".'
The GluonNLP project for example has started adopting MXNet 2 and has found it to work well for the requirements of the project. With GluonNLP's success in adopting MXNet 2, we may consider our development to have reached a milestone and can consider releasing an Alpha of MXNet 2 so that bleeding-edge developers can start making use of the great work that went into MXNet 2. On the road towards a stable MXNet 2 we may vote on a beta release later. Missing items for a beta are tracked in https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/19139 Please let me know if you have any concerns about this. Otherwise we may start to prepare for an Alpha release soon. Best regards Leonard
