Thanks for everyone involved in this effort. This not only is a huge win for the Scala community but also for the Clojure community which depends on the Scala jar artifact.
Well done. On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 9:58 PM Zach Kimberg <zachary.kimb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > A little over a month ago, we announced the nightly build of the Scala > package on Nexus [1]. It featured the same statically linked binary build > logic used by the Python pip to make the adoption as easy for our JVM users > as for our python users. However, that release occurred on a private > pipeline using code that was not publicly available. > > First, I would like to thank Sheng for contributing the pip binary build > scripts to the community and making them accessible as part of the MXNet > repository [2]. Now, everyone can produce similar published artifacts for > their own needs and we can better verify the release production code as > part of the Jenkins CI. > > Using his contribution, we have created a new job on the MXNet Jenkins for > publishing artifacts on a nightly basis [3]. In order to ensure the highest > quality for our releases regardless of user system, it will automatically > test the artifacts across other distributions including Ubuntu 16.04, > Ubuntu 18.04, and CentOS 7 as part of the deployment. > > You can find the code for the nightly publish pipeline on the repo [4]. We > hope that others can work off of this pipeline to help expand the same > static building and thorough testing to additional MXNet packages and > language bindings in the future. > > Special thanks to Qing for his help throughout the project, Sheng for the > binary build logic, Marco for his reviews and support working with Jenkins, > Anton for setting up the development Jenkins for us, and Frank and Naveen > for work on the Scala maven build and deployment. > > Zach > > [1] - https://repository.apache.org/#nexus-search;quick~org.apache.mxnet > [2] - > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/tree/master/tools/staticbuild > [3] - > > http://jenkins.mxnet-ci.amazon-ml.com/job/restricted-publish-artifacts/job/master/ > [4] - https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/tree/master/ci/publish >
