Dear MXNet community - I hope you have seen that voting for v1.4.0.rc0 has started and will continue until December 27th noon. So far two binding +1 votes. I suggesting the following schedule to account for holidays and of course depending on voting feedback.
Vote on dev@ until 12/27 Vote on general@ 12/28 – 1/3 Release announcement with pre-build language bindings 1/9 Please let me know if you have concerns with the proposed schedule. Regards, Steffen On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:22 AM Haibin Lin <haibin.lin....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Steffen, > > Aston and I would like to bring this PR to your attention: > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13686, where Zhi fixed the > num_worker argument of DataLoader on windows. Without this fix, using > DataLoader with num_worker > 0 would result in crash on Windows. Bringing > this PR to 1.4.x would greatly benefit windows users of MXNet. Aston is > working on the dive into deep learning book > <http://diveintodeeplearning.org> based on MXNet, which is due and frozen > for publication next week. Currently the book will depend on MXNet 1.4.0 > and discourages readers from using multi-worker DataLoaders due to this bug > on Windows. With this fix Aston can update the examples in the book with > DataLoader using multiple workers, which will be very beneficial to the > broader MXNet community. > > Best, > Haibin > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 6:11 AM Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > Hi Steffen > > > > Added some notes in your PR for the release notes. > > > > In particular, I'm a bit concerned about the status of topology aware > > communication, since it has open issues and is not being tested in CI. > > (The tests also fail). I think we should anounce it when it's working > > properly and it's well tested. > > > > Pedro. > > > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 11:06 AM Steffen Rochel <steffenroc...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Dear MXNet community - > > > all issues beside one > > > <https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/13438> have been > > > addressed. I suggest to document the last remaining issue as known > > problem > > > and move forward with the release. > > > Please communicate if you have concerns of know about critical issues > to > > be > > > addressed before starting vote about releasing 1.4.0 as soon as > possible. > > > Please also have a look at the release notes > > > < > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Apache+MXNet+%28incubating%29+1.4.0+Release+Notes > > > > > > and provide feedback. > > > > > > I'm planing to start voting beginning of next week. > > > Steffen > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 8:31 PM Steffen Rochel <steffenroc...@gmail.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Pedro - this are indeed the draft release notes for v1.4.0. Please > > add > > > > description as you suggested. > > > > > > > > All - please have a look at the release notes and provide feedback > and > > > > suggestions.. > > > > Steffen > > > > On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 3:30 AM Zhao, Patric <patric.z...@intel.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hi Steffen, > > > >> > > > >> I saw the draft of 1.4 release notes in here ( > > > >> > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Apache+MXNet+%28incubating%29+1.4.0+Release+Notes > > > >> ). > > > >> > > > >> Is this near the final version? I'd like to add some descriptions > of > > new > > > >> quantization features enabled in 1.4. > > > >> > > > >> Is it OK? > > > >> > > > >> Thanks, > > > >> > > > >> --Patric > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > -----Original Message----- > > > >> > From: Steffen Rochel [mailto:steffenroc...@gmail.com] > > > >> > Sent: Saturday, December 8, 2018 1:12 AM > > > >> > To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org > > > >> > Subject: Apache MXNet v1.4.0 release status > > > >> > > > > >> > Dear MXNet community - > > > >> > I would like to provide update on v1.4.0 status, details are > tracked > > > >> here > > > >> > < > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Apache+MXNet+%28i > > > >> > ncubating%29+1.4.0+Release+Plan+and+Status> > > > >> > . > > > >> > > > > >> > Thank you very much for everybody effort to resolve the identified > > > >> issues. > > > >> > We are down to 3 open issues - for details please see > > > >> > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Apache+MXNet+%28in > > > >> > cubating%29+1. > > > >> > 4.0 > > > >> > > > +Release+Plan+and+Status#ApacheMXNet(incubating)1.4.0ReleasePlanandSt > > > >> > atu > > > >> > +Release+Plan+and+s-OpenPRstotrack > > > >> > < > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Apache+MXNet+%28i > > > >> > > ncubating%29+1.4.0+Release+Plan+and+Status#ApacheMXNet(incubating)1. > > > >> > 4.0ReleasePlanandStatus-OpenPRstotrack> > > > >> > Please help to resolve the remaining issues and integrate to > v1.4.x > > > >> branch. > > > >> > Current estimate to address the identified security > vulnerabilities > > in > > > >> the > > > >> > Scala/Java package and merge into v1.4.x branch is end of next > week > > > >> > (December 14th) I will communicate as soon I have more > information. > > > >> > > > > >> > Regards, > > > >> > Steffen > > > >> > > > > > > >
