These are great ideas, sounds very good to me. Thanks for your efforts
around the user experience!

-Marco

Vandana Kannan <[email protected]> schrieb am Do., 16. Aug. 2018, 18:27:

> @Marco: Most of the examples are standalone applications and not
> notebooks. We could start off by enabling tests for examples that are
> either notebooks or those that can be executed with command line options.
>
> Some of the problems that we may come across are with examples that load
> large datasets (we could probably use a smaller dataset, but it depends on
> the example), or examples that have a long training time (we could probably
> execute them for 1 epoch). Straight Dope nightly tests cap the execution
> time to 10 minutes per notebook. We could do the same here wherever
> possible.
>
> @Kellen: Good idea to include flake8/pylint checks for examples in nightly
> builds - we would need to fix the backlog (
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/12205) before enabling.
> Yes, any contribution from the community on any of these TODO items, would
> be great.
>
> - Vandana
>
> On 2018/08/16 06:40:56, kellen sunderland <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I think it would be very beneficial to start fleshing out the nighties.
> > They provide a lot of value at a relatively small cost.  Any
> contributions
> > from the community would be appreciated.
> >
> > Things I could see being beneficial:
> > * Long running tests
> > * In depth flake8/pylint linters
> > * cudamemcheck builds
> > * Asan builds.
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 12:24 AM Marco de Abreu
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I think this is a great idea! Thanks a lot for fixing all the problems
> in
> > > our examples.
> > >
> > > Do you see any problems that could come up if we just run them one by
> one?
> > > We already got a pipeline that allows us to verify jupyter notebooks,
> but
> > > afaik the examples are standalone files with a main function, right?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Marco
> > >
> > > Vandana Kannan <[email protected]> schrieb am Mi., 15. Aug. 2018,
> > > 23:44:
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > Recently we saw that there were quite a few Pylint undefined-variable
> > > > errors in MXNet code, a majority of them in the example folder. These
> > > > errors highlight that there are paths in the examples that are
> broken and
> > > > these have not been caught during testing.
> > > >
> > > > These errors are later reported as issues by users. For example,
> > > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/11278.
> > > >
> > > > It would be a good idea to include tests for all examples in the
> nightly
> > > > builds (Similar to
> > > > incubator-mxnet/tests/nightly/test_image_classification.sh). Side
> note:
> > > We
> > > > might have to see what to do about examples that include special
> setup
> > > > instructions or take too long to execute.
> > > >
> > > > Any thoughts or suggestions on writing these tests, feasibility or
> > > > previous attempts at including these tests, would be helpful.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Vandana
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>

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