There’s more production systems still using Caffe 1 than you may realize. While it may be easy for individual developers to move off of Caffe, it will be quite some time before many production systems are off of it, because, as you can imagine, it’s much more difficult to change a live system without a good transition plan (which the caffe integration features do). (I can think of several major services at my day job that use Caffe).
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 1:42 PM Afrooze, Sina <sina....@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it'd be more sustainable long term to expect users to convert > caffe -> caffe2 ->onnx->mxnet rather than caffe->mxnet. Perhaps an MXNet > tutorial can show how to do this with minimum pain. - Sina > > > On 7/19/18, 1:27 PM, "Steffen Rochel" <steffenroc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Mu - do we have any indication how many users we do have on the > functionality? I see only two github issues from 2017 open. > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:54 PM Mu Li <muli....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Anton, > > > > It's understandable that Caffe is old and its community is > shrinking. For > > this very reasons, existing caffe users are looking for > alternatives. The > > current converter is important for such users to transit to MXNet. It > > addresses an important issue that: how I can reuse my previous caffe > models > > in MXNet. > > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Anton Chernov <mecher...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > Dear community, > > > > > > Currently MXNet has a Caffe framework integration (translator and > > > converter) [1]. > > > > > > There were some issues discovered with it, for example some tests > were > > > failing [2]. Since we decided to remove the flaky tests and > proceed to > > > making them stable I propose completely removing this functionality > > > instead. > > > > > > There are multiple reasons to this: > > > > > > * Mind that this is Caffe 1 (not 2) > > > * Some people mentioned: "Caffe is soooooo 2015." > > > * Keeping functionality that is both unstable and old is a burden > for > > > maintenance. > > > * Keeping functionality that nobody needs is not necessary overall > > > > > > Please let me know your thoughts. > > > > > > Best > > > Anton > > > > > > [1] > > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/commits/ > > > master/tools/caffe_converter/convert_caffe_modelzoo.py > > > [2] > > > http://jenkins.mxnet-ci.amazon-ml.com/blue/organizations/jenkins/ > > > incubator-mxnet/detail/master/1207/pipeline/ > > > > > > > > >
