Dear MXNet community - as you should have seen in previous email, voting for v1.4.0.rc0 has been cancelled. We received a -1 vote due to outstanding license issues. Please help to update https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/MXNet+Source+Licenses and resolve outstanding issues.
I would like to ask specifically for help from contributors to mkldnn, opemmp and onnx-tensorrt to address the feedback from Justin - see https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ebb8c4c00fb66dd98da13621c7dcb8753fee57562a861d61379d31e9@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E . I suggest to fix the issues first on master, then cherry-pick and merge to 1.4.x branch. I'm suggesting to exclude Julia from 1.4.0 release as integration into MXNet repo and upgrade to 0.7+ is WIP. I'm suggesting to exclude googletest/googlemock from 1.4.0 release as outstanind license issues are not resolved yet. This should not impact users. Please provide your feedback to the suggestions. Regards, Steffen On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 1:34 PM Steffen Rochel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 < >> [email protected]> >> 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 < >> [email protected]> >> > 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 < >> [email protected]> >> > > 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 <[email protected]> >> > 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:[email protected]] >> > > >> > Sent: Saturday, December 8, 2018 1:12 AM >> > > >> > To: [email protected] >> > > >> > 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 >> > > >> >> > > > >> > >> >
