why not use pypiserver? it is  compatible server for pip.use it can install
pack like pip install -i http://xxxx/ mxnet --pre

Skalicky, Sam <sska...@amazon.com.invalid> 于2020年1月7日周二 上午2:55写道:

> Thats a good idea Leonard, we can have a static html page in the bucket
> for this. But keep in mind pip wheels do have a COMMIT_HASH file packaged
> inside. So we can always figure out which commit/build a user has by
> dumping this file from the mxnet installation. File name of the pip wheel
> is not so important.
>
> Sam
>
> > On Jan 6, 2020, at 10:19 AM, Lausen, Leonard <lau...@amazon.com.INVALID>
> wrote:
> >
> > Consider a user finds a bug in a nightly version but we can't narrow
> down the
> > version of mxnet used as the name is constant over time. Or users wan't
> to
> > revert back to the previous nightly version installed but don't know
> which date
> > it was from due to constant name.
> >
> > Instead I suggest we introduce an autogenerated page like
> > https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu101/torch_nightly.html
> >
> > Then "pip install -f URLTOPAGE mxnet" will install the latest available
> version.
> > Maybe the team maintaining the S3 bucket can reconsider creating such
> page for
> > the intermediate time until the CD based nighlty build is operating.
> >
> > On Mon, 2020-01-06 at 10:01 -0800, Lin Yuan wrote:
> >> +1 for a nightly pip with fixed name.
> >>
> >> We need this to track mxnet integration with other packages such as
> Horovod.
> >>
> >> Sam, when do you think we can have this nightly build with a fixed name?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Lin
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 7:48 PM Skalicky, Sam <sska...@amazon.com.invalid
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Tao,
> >>>
> >>> We dont have this yet, but we did think about putting the latest
> wheels in
> >>> a specific place in the s3 bucket so they are always updated.
> Initially we
> >>> decided not to do this since the main MXNet CD should have been fixed.
> But
> >>> since its still not fixed yet, we might try and go ahead and do this.
> >>>
> >>> Sam
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 5, 2020, at 6:02 PM, Lv, Tao A <tao.a...@intel.com<mailto:
> >>> tao.a...@intel.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> How to install the latest available build of a flavor without
> specifying
> >>> the build date? Something like `pip install mxnet --pre`.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> -tao
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Skalicky, Sam <sska...@amazon.com.INVALID<mailto:
> >>> sska...@amazon.com.INVALID>>
> >>> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2020 2:09 AM
> >>> To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org<mailto:
> dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org>
> >>> Subject: Re: Stopping nightly releases to Pypi
> >>>
> >>> Hi Haibin,
> >>>
> >>> You typed the correct URLs, the cu100 build has been failing since
> >>> December 30th but other builds have succeeded. The wheels are being
> >>> delivered into a public bucket that anyone with an AWS account can
> access
> >>> and go poke around, here’s the URL for web access:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://s3.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/buckets/apache-mxnet/dist/2020-01-01/dist/?region=us-west-2&tab=overview
> >>>
> >>> You will have to log into your AWS account to access it however (which
> >>> means you’ll need an AWS account).
> >>>
> >>> It looks like only the following flavors are available for 2020-01-01:
> >>> mxnet
> >>> mxnet-cu92
> >>> mxnet-cu92mkl
> >>> mxnet-mkl
> >>>
> >>> Sam
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 4, 2020, at 9:06 PM, Haibin Lin <haibin.lin....@gmail.com
> <mailto:
> >>> haibin.lin....@gmail.com><mailto:haibin.lin....@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I was trying the nightly builds, but none of them is available:
> >>>
> >>> pip3 install
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2020-01-01/dist/mxnet_cu100-1.6.0b20200101-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>> --user
> >>> <
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2020-01-01/dist/mxnet_cu100-1.6.0b20200101-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl--user
> >>>>
> >>> pip3 install
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2020-01-02/dist/mxnet_cu100-1.6.0b20200102-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>> --user
> >>> <
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2020-01-02/dist/mxnet_cu100-1.6.0b20200102-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl--user
> >>>>
> >>> pip3 install
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2020-01-03/dist/mxnet_cu100-1.6.0b20200103-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>> --user
> >>> <
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2020-01-03/dist/mxnet_cu100-1.6.0b20200103-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl--user
> >>>>
> >>> pip3 install
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2020-01-04/dist/mxnet_cu100-1.6.0b20200104-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>> --user
> >>> <
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2020-01-04/dist/mxnet_cu100-1.6.0b20200104-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl--user
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> ERROR: Could not install requirement mxnet-cu100==1.6.0b20200103 from
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2020-01-03/dist/mxnet_cu100-1.6.0b20200103-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>> because of HTTP error 404 Client Error: Not Found for url:
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2020-01-03/dist/mxnet_cu100-1.6.0b20200103-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>> for URL
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2020-01-03/dist/mxnet_cu100-1.6.0b20200103-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>>
> >>> Please let me know if I typed wrong URLs.
> >>>
> >>> 1. The discoverability of available nightly builds needs improvement.
> If
> >>> someone can help write a script to list all links that exist, that
> would be
> >>> very helpful.
> >>> 2. If any nightly build is not built successfully, how do the community
> >>> know the reason of the failure, and potentially offer helps? Currently
> I
> >>> don't have much visibility of the nightly build status.
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Haibin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 5:47 PM Pedro Larroy <
> pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com
> >>> <mailto:pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Just to clarify, the current CI is quite an overhead to maintain for
> >>> several reasons, this complexity is overkill for CD. Jenkins also has
> >>> constant plugin upgrades, security vulnerabilities, has to be restarted
> >>> from time to time as it stops working... and to make binary builds
> from an
> >>> environment which runs unsafe code, I don't think is good practice. So
> for
> >>> that, having a separate Jenkins, CodeBuild, Drone or using a separate
> >>> Jenkins node is the right solution. Agree with you that is just a
> >>> scheduler, but somebody is making efforts to keep it running. If you
> have
> >>> the appetite and resources to duplicate it for CD please go ahead.
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 3:25 PM Marco de Abreu <marco.g.ab...@gmail.com
> >>> <mailto:marco.g.ab...@gmail.com>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Regarding your point of finding somebody to maintain the solution: At
> >>> Apache we usually retire things if there's no maintainer, since that
> >>> indicates that the feature/system is not of enough interest to warrant
> >>> maintenance - otherwise, someone would step up.
> >>>
> >>> While assistance in the form of a fix is always appreciated, the fix
> still
> >>> has to conform with the way this project and Apache operates. Next
> time I'd
> >>> recommend to contribute time on improving the existing community
> solution
> >>> instead of developing an internal system.
> >>>
> >>> -Marco
> >>>
> >>> Marco de Abreu <marco.g.ab...@gmail.com<mailto:marco.g.ab...@gmail.com
> >>
> >>> schrieb am Sa., 4. Jan. 2020,
> >>> 00:21:
> >>>
> >>> Sam, while I understand that this solution was developed out of
> necessity,
> >>> my question why a new system has been developed instead of fixing the
> >>> existing one or adapting the solution. CodeBuild is a scheduler in the
> same
> >>> fashion as Jenkins is. It runs code. So you can adapt it to Jenkins
> without
> >>> much hassle.
> >>>
> >>> I'm not volunteering for this - why should I? The role of a PMC member
> is
> >>> to steer the direction of the project. Just because a manager points
> >>> towards a certain direction, if doesn't mean that they're going to do
> it.
> >>>
> >>> Apparently there was enough time at some point to develop a new
> solution
> >>> from scratch. It might have been a solution for your internal team and
> >>> that's fine, but upgrading it "temporarily" to be the advertised way
> on the
> >>> official website is something different.
> >>>
> >>> I won't argue about how the veto can be enforced. I think it's in the
> best
> >>> interest of the project if we try working on a solution instead of
> spending
> >>> time on trying to figure out the power of the PMC.
> >>>
> >>> Pedro, that's certainly a step towards the right direction. But
> committers
> >>> would also need access to the control plane of the system - to trigger,
> >>> stop and audit builds. We could go down that road, but i think the
> fewer
> >>> systems, the better - also for the sake of maintainability.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Marco
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com<mailto:
> >>> pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com>> schrieb am Fr., 3. Jan.
> >>> 2020,
> >>> 20:55:
> >>>
> >>> I'm not involved in such efforts, but one possibility is to have the
> yaml
> >>> files that describe the pipelines for CD in the Apache repositories,
> would
> >>> that be acceptable from the Apache POV? In the end they should be very
> thin
> >>> and calling the scripts that are part of the CD packages.
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 6:56 AM Marco de Abreu <
> marco.g.ab...@gmail.com
> >>> <mailto:marco.g.ab...@gmail.com>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Agree, but the question how a non Amazonian is able to maintain and
> access
> >>> the system is still open. As it stands right now, the community has
> taken a
> >>> step back and loses some control if we continue down that road.
> >>>
> >>> I personally am disapproving of that approach since committers are no
> >>> longer in control of that process. So far it seems like my questions
> were
> >>> skipped and further actions have been taken. As openness and the
> community
> >>> having control are part of our graduation criteria, I'm putting in my
> veto
> >>> with a grace period until 15th of January. Please bring the system
> into a
> >>> state that aligns with Apache values or revert the changes.
> >>>
> >>> -Marco
> >>>
> >>> Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com<mailto:
> >>> pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com>> schrieb am Fr., 3. Jan.
> >>> 2020,
> >>> 03:33:
> >>>
> >>> CD should be separate from CI for security reasons in any case.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 10:04 AM Marco de Abreu <
> marco.g.ab...@gmail.com
> >>> <mailto:marco.g.ab...@gmail.com>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Could you elaborate how a non-Amazonian is able to access, maintain and
> >>> review the CodeBuild pipeline? How come we've diverted from the
> community
> >>> agreed-on standard where the public Jenkins serves for the purpose of
> >>> testing and releasing MXNet? I'd be curious about the issues you're
> >>> encountering with Jenkins CI that led to a non-standard solution.
> >>>
> >>> -Marco
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Skalicky, Sam <sska...@amazon.com.invalid<mailto:
> >>> sska...@amazon.com.invalid>> schrieb am Sa., 7.
> >>> Dez.
> >>> 2019,
> >>> 18:39:
> >>>
> >>> Hi MXNet Community,
> >>>
> >>> We have been working on getting nightly builds fixed and made available
> >>> again. We’ve made another system using AWS CodeBuild & S3 to work
> around
> >>> the problems with Jenkins CI, PyPI, etc. It is currently building all
> the
> >>> flavors and publishing to an S3 bucket here:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/buckets/apache-mxnet/dist/?region=us-west-2
> >>>
> >>> There are folders for each set of nightly builds, try out the wheels
> >>> starting today 2019-12-07. Builds start at 1:30am PT (9:30am
> >>> GMT)
> >>> and
> >>> arrive in the bucket 30min-2hours later. Inside each folder are the
> wheels
> >>> for each flavor of MXNet. Currently we’re only building for linux,
> builds
> >>> for windows/Mac will come later.
> >>>
> >>> If you want to download the wheels easily you can use a URL in the form
> >>> of:
> >>> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <YYYY-MM-DD>/dist/<mxnet_build>-1.6.0b<YYYYMMDD>-py2.py3-none-
> >>> manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>>
> >>> Heres a set of links for today’s builds
> >>>
> >>> (Plain mxnet, no mkl no cuda)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>> (mxnet-mkl
> >>> <
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl(mxnet-mkl
> >>>>
> >>> <
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl(mxnet-mkl
> >>>
> >>> )
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet_mkl-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>> (mxnet-cuXXX
> >>> <
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet_mkl-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl(mxnet-cuXXX
> >>>>
> >>> <
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet_mkl-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl(mxnet-cuXXX
> >>>
> >>> )
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet_cu90-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet_cu92-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet_cu100-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet_cu101-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>> (mxnet-cuXXXmkl
> >>> <
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet_cu101-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl(mxnet-cuXXXmkl
> >>>>
> >>> <
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet_cu101-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl(mxnet-cuXXXmkl
> >>>
> >>> )
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet_cu90mkl-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet_cu92mkl-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet_cu100mkl-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet_cu101mkl-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>>
> >>> You can easily install these pip wheels in your system either by
> >>> downloading them to your machine first and then installing by
> >>> doing:
> >>>
> >>> pip install /path/to/downloaded/wheel.whl
> >>>
> >>> Or you can install directly by just giving the link to pip like
> >>> this:
> >>>
> >>> pip install
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://apache-mxnet.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dist/2019-12-07/dist/mxnet-1.6.0b20191207-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>>
> >>> Credit goes to everyone involved (in no particular order) Rakesh
> Vasudevan
> >>> Zach Kimberg Manu Seth Sheng Zha Jun Wu Pedro Larroy Chaitanya Bapat
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>> Sam
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Dec 5, 2019, at 1:16 AM, Lausen, Leonard <lau...@amazon.com.INVALID
> >>> <mailto:lau...@amazon.com.INVALID> <mailto:lau...@amazon.com.INVALID>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> We don't loose pip by hosting on S3. We just don't host nightly
> releases
> >>> on Pypi servers and mirror them to several hundred mirrors immediately
> >>> after each build is published which is very expensive for the Pypi
> project..
> >>> People
> >>> can
> >>> still
> >>> install the nightly builds with pip by specifying the -f option.
> >>>
> >>> Uploading weekly releases to Pypi will reduce the cost for Pypi by ~75%
> >>> [1]. It may be acceptable to Pypi, but does it make sense for us? I'm
> not
> >>> convinced weekly release on Pypi is a good idea. Consider one release
> is
> >>> buggy, users will need to wait for 7 days for a fix. It doesn't provide
> >>> good user experience.
> >>> If someone has a stronger conviction about the value of weekly
> releases on
> >>> Pypi, that person shall please go ahead and propose it in a separate
> >>> discussion thread.
> >>>
> >>> Currently we don't have generally working nightly builds to Pypi and
> as a
> >>> matter of fact we know that we can't have them due to Pypi's policy
> and our
> >>> apparent need for large binaries. Given this fact and that no
> objection was
> >>> raised by
> >>> 2019-12-05 at 05:42 UTC, I conclude we have lazy consensus on stopping
> >>> upload attempts of nightly builds to Pypi.
> >>>
> >>> With consensus established, we can change the CI job to stop trying to
> >>> upload the nightly builds and then request Pypi to increase the limit.
> >>> Then
> >>> we
> >>> have one
> >>> less blocker for the 1.6 release.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards
> >>> Leonard
> >>>
> >>> [1]: Lower cost due to less releases, but higher cost due to 500MB ->
> >>> 800MB limit increase. Assuming that the limit increase translates into
> >>> actually larger binaries.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 22:20 +0100, Marco de Abreu wrote:
> >>> Are weekly releases an option? It was brought up as concern that we
> might
> >>> lose pip as a pretty common distribution channel where people consume
> >>> nightly builds. I don't feel like that concern has been properly
> addressed
> >>> so far.
> >>>
> >>> -Marco
> >>>
> >>> Lausen, Leonard <lau...@amazon.com.invalid<mailto:
> >>> lau...@amazon.com.invalid><mailto:
> >>> lau...@amazon.com.invalid<mailto:lau...@amazon.com.invalid>>> schrieb
> am
> >>> Mi., 4. Dez. 2019,
> >>> 04:09:
> >>>
> >>> As a simple POC to test distribution, you can try installing MXNet
> based
> >>> on these 3 URLs:
> >>>
> >>> pip install --no-cache-dir
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://mxnet-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/mxnet_cu101-1.5.1.post0-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>> pip install --no-cache-dir
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://mxnet-dev.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/mxnet_cu101-1.5.1.post0-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>> pip install --no-cache-dir
> >>> https://d19zq12jzu4w95.cloudfront.net/
> >>> mxnet_cu101-1.5.1.post0-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>> <
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://d19zq12jzu4w95.cloudfront.net/mxnet_cu101-1.5.1.post0-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>>
> >>> <
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://d19zq12jzu4w95.cloudfront.net/mxnet_cu101-1.5.1.post0-py2.py3-none-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> where --no-cache-dir prevents caching the downloaded file, for the
> purpose
> >>> of testing. (cu101 chosen based on large size)
> >>>
> >>> The first URL uses standard S3 bucket in US. The second uses
> >>> S3
> >>> Accelerate
> >>> based
> >>> on CloudFront CDN. And the third uses CloudFront CDN. I'm adding the
> third
> >>> URL, as S3 Accelerate may or may not use all new CloudFront endpoints
> yet.
> >>>
> >>> Regarding voting: Uploading to Pypi is currently impossible, which is a
> >>> reality (so there is no option to continue as we do currently). Pypi
> folks
> >>> indicated they will unblock our uploads to Pypi once we stop uploading
> >>> nightly releases and taking up 20% of their ressources [1].
> >>>
> >>> If there are any shortcomings or problems identified with uploading to
> S3,
> >>> we can work to address them. But for now, status quo is broken and this
> >>> seems the only solution addressing Pypi's problem.
> >>>
> >>> I don't mind if you state that you object to lazy consensus and start a
> >>> vote. If your "maybe [...] start a proper vote" was supposed to be an
> >>> objection to lazy consensus, please state so clearly (I'm not sure if
> >>> "maybe"
> >>> qualifies
> >>> as
> >>> objection). Though I think it only makes sense with at least 2 options
> to
> >>> vote on. Status quo is not a meaningful option, as it is already
> broken.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards
> >>> Leonard
> >>>
> >>> [1]:
> >>>
> >>> https://github.com/pypa/pypi-support/issues/50#issuecomment-560479706
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 2019-12-03 at 19:28 +0100, Marco de Abreu wrote:
> >>> Excellent! Could we maybe come up with a POC and a quick writeup and
> then
> >>> start a proper vote after everyone verified that it covers their
> use-cases?
> >>> -Marco
> >>>
> >>> Sheng Zha <zhash...@apache.org<mailto:zhash...@apache.org>> schrieb am
> >>> Di., 3. Dez. 2019,
> >>> 19:24:
> >>>
> >>> Yes, there is. We can also make it easier to access by using a
> >>> geo-location based DNS server so that China users are directed to that
> >>> local mirror. The rest of the world is already covered by the global
> >>> cloudfront.
> >>>
> >>> -sz
> >>>
> >>> On 2019/12/03 18:22:22, Marco de Abreu < marco.g.ab...@gmail.com
> <mailto:
> >>> marco.g.ab...@gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> Isn't there an s3 endpoint in Beijing?
> >>>
> >>> It seems like this topic still warrants some discussion and thus I'd
> >>>
> >>> prefer
> >>> if we don't move forward with lazy consensus.
> >>>
> >>> -Marco
> >>>
> >>> Tao Lv <mutou...@gmail.com<mailto:mutou...@gmail.com>> schrieb am
> Di., 3.
> >>> Dez. 2019,
> >>> 14:31:
> >>>
> >>> * For pypi, we can use mirrors.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 9:28 PM Tao Lv <mutou...@gmail.com<mailto:
> >>> mutou...@gmail.com>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> As we have many users in China, I'm considering the accessibility of
> S3.
> >>> For pip, we can mirrors.
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:24 PM Lausen, Leonard
> >>>
> >>> <lau...@amazon.com.invalid<mailto:lau...@amazon.com.invalid>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I would like to remind everyone that lazy consensus is assumed if no
> >>> objections are raised before 2019-12-05 at 05:42 UTC. There has been
> some
> >>>
> >>> discussion
> >>> about
> >>> the proposal, but to my understanding no objections were raised.
> >>> If the proposal is accepted, MXNet releases would be installed via  pip
> >>> install mxnet
> >>>
> >>> And release candidates via
> >>>
> >>> pip install --pre mxnet
> >>>
> >>> (or with the respective cuda version specifier appended etc.)
> >>>
> >>> To obtain releases built automatically from the master branch, users
> would
> >>> need to specify something like "-f
> >>> http://mxnet.s3.amazonaws.com/mxnet-X/nightly.html"; option to pip.
> >>> Best regards
> >>> Leonard
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 05:42 +0000, Lausen, Leonard wrote:
> >>> Hi MXNet Community,
> >>>
> >>> since more than 2 months our binary Python nightly releases
> >>>
> >>> published
> >>> on Pypi
> >>> are broken. The problem is that our binaries exceed Pypi's size limit.
> >>> Decreasing the binary size by adding compression breaks
> >>>
> >>> third-party
> >>> libraries
> >>> loading libmxnet.so
> >>>
> >>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/16193
> >>> Sheng requested Pypi to increase their size limit:
> >>> https://github.com/pypa/pypi-support/issues/50
> >>>
> >>> Currently "the biggest cost for PyPI from [the many MXNet binaries with
> >>> nightly release to Pypi] is the bandwidth consumed when several hundred
> >>> mirrors attempt to mirror each release immediately after it's
> published".
> >>> So Pypi is not inclined to allow us to upload even larger binaries on a
> >>> nightly schedule.
> >>> Their compromise is to allow it on a weekly cadence.
> >>>
> >>> However, I would like the community to revisit the necessity of
> releasing
> >>> pre- release binaries to Pypi on a nightly (or weekly) cadence.
> >>>
> >>> Instead, we
> >>> can
> >>> release nightly binaries ONLY to a public S3 bucket and instruct users
> to
> >>> install from there. On our side, we only need to prepare a html
> document
> >>> that contains links to all released nightly binaries.
> >>> Finally users will install the nightly releases via
> >>>
> >>> pip install --pre mxnet-cu101 -f
> >>>
> >>> http://mxnet.s3.amazonaws.com/mxnet-cu101/
> >>> nightly.html
> >>>
> >>> Instead of
> >>>
> >>> pip install --pre mxnet-cu101
> >>>
> >>> Of course proper releases and release candidates should still be made
> >>> available via Pypi. Thus releases would be installed via
> >>>
> >>> pip install mxnet-cu101
> >>>
> >>> And release candidates via
> >>>
> >>> pip install --pre mxnet-cu101
> >>>
> >>> This will substantially reduce the costs of the Pypi project and in
> fact
> >>> matches the installation experience provided by PyTorch. I don't think
> the
> >>> benefit of not including "-f
> >>>
> >>> http://mxnet.s3.amazonaws.com/mxnet-cu101/nightly.html";
> >>> matches the costs we currently externalize to the Pypi team.
> >>>
> >>> This suggestion seems uncontroversial to me. Thus I would like to start
> >>> lazy consensus. If there are no objections, I will assume lazy
> >>>
> >>> consensus on
> >>> stopping
> >>> nightly releases to Pypi in 72hrs.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards
> >>> Leonard
> >>>
> >>>
>
>

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