In addition to your points, releases should be on apache.org and its mirror network. Not on github.com.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 5:45 PM, pracheer gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi dev@, > > As you are aware MXNet recently had its first release under the Apache > banner. > > > As a first-time release, there was a lot of learning for all of us > involved. Keeping that in mind, I wanted to reach out to the community to > understand what aspects of the release process should be improved for the > future releases (or maybe even the things that we did well). > > (I will capture it in the wiki<https://cwiki.apache.org/ > confluence/display/MXNET/Release+Process> as guidelines for posterity) > > > Here are the few things that I thought could be improved: > > 1. Voting for the release: Does a +1 voter need to test, at least, all > the new major features before giving her vote? Does it make sense for every > +1 voter to call out why she thinks so (i.e. what is it that she tested > successfully that made her feel that RC is ready for prime time)? This may > help the community feel more confident about the RC. > 2. Bigger/clearer heads up on the deadline to all the contributors > pushing their code changes to make it into the RC. 2 weeks advance notice > may be? > > 3. Something that wasn't very obvious (please correct me if I'm wrong): > Did we do an end-to-end testing (distributed training on a cluster and run > inferences) on some big model to ensure our performance hasn't degraded > since our previous release (or degraded due to some last minute change we > made). Or are the tests that are running as part of Jenkins infrastructure > good enough? > > > What are the other things we should improve on? > > > > Note that, adding some knobs and refining the process shouldn’t come at > cost of faster releases. This is just meant to provide some ideas that will > help improve the quality of MXNet while making the release process cleaner > and overall community effort more efficient. > > > > Let me know what you think. > > -Pracheer >
