Possible but we have template in examples/ for testing and that’s ok imo. If we 
think separate repos is the way to go why not ask?

@mentors how hard would it be to get say 5 new repos tied to github mirrors?


On Aug 15, 2016, at 1:47 PM, Chan Lee <chanlee...@gmail.com> wrote:

Regarding 1), I agree with Pat's points for the need to maintain a separate 
repository and release cycle for templates. But for the purpose of making the 
donation process simple and ensuring consistency of templates with each new 
release of PIO, I think having the code reside inside PIO repo would be the 
cleanest solution. 

How about creating a separate "apache" branch on each official template repo 
that is consistent with PIO release? So before every PIO release, we will merge 
changes into this "apache" branch, merge them into the main PIO repo, and run 
rigorous tests for each template to ensure that they're compatible. 

That way people can continue to clone/fork templates as before, it will be easy 
to tag/track template versions compatible with each PIO release, and we can 
ensure that all official engines work with each new PIO release which I feel is 
most important. Also, as Marcin mentioned, we can expand tests to keep track of 
performance changes as well.

Also, I think we should consider merging the current examples/ directory with 
the templates/ directory. 

Thanks,
Chan


On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Pat Ferrel <p...@occamsmachete.com 
<mailto:p...@occamsmachete.com>> wrote:
Important things unresolved for release:

1) What to do with Apache templates—my suggestion is separate repos for the 3 
reasons below.
2) We need a Gallery page listing at least a couple converted tested 
templates—couldn’t find this in the site but maybe I missed it. The UR is now 
converted and tested as are the examples.
3) AML fork healed, should be pushed this afternoon.
4) the rest of the release magic

PIO is rather moot without templates but if they are on a separate release 
schedule like the doc site (which also needs work) we could release without 1 & 
2. I’d favor that rather than releasing with templates in a templates/ 
directory.

Anything else? How are people feeling about release?


On Aug 12, 2016, at 10:18 AM, Pat Ferrel <p...@occamsmachete.com 
<mailto:p...@occamsmachete.com>> wrote:

Independent of Apache I’d suggest each template have their own git repo as they 
do now. Is this practically possible in ASF (another example of my 
infrastructure rant but leave that for now). The semantics of this make sense. 
The requirements for all apache or non-apache templates seem to be:

1) They need to be allowed to have separate release cycles. 
2) There should be only one way to install templates apache or non-apache
3) This method should support tags and branches, and separate PRs

Practically speaking for independent ones (the Universal Recommender will 
remain independent until the issues above are resolved) the templates *will* be 
a separate repo and `git pull` *will* be the method of download. To me this 
implies the Apache ones should use the same pattern. 

The separate issue of rules for inclusion in Apache should include a test 
requirement IMO. But inclusion in the Gallery seems a looser attachment to the 
project—just one persons opinion


On Aug 11, 2016, at 3:42 PM, Chan Lee <chanlee...@gmail.com 
<mailto:chanlee...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I've begun working on migrating official PredictionIO templates into the main 
apache repository, and there are a few points I'd like to bring to attention.

1) Template code will be merged under templates/ directory, and all commit 
history and authorship will be preserved.

2) Organization namespace will change in the template code from "io.prediction" 
to "org.apache.predictionio". 

3) In order to download an engine template, users could (1) git clone the 
entire repo and copy the files in templates/<some-template>, or (2) use 
something like svn to download only the necessary subdirectory. I'd like to ask 
what everyone thinks should be the recommended approach. The documentation 
should be updated accordingly (instead of `pio template get`).

4) I'd like to ask if there are any ActionML/outside templates that should be 
included or updated. For instance, 
template-scala-parallel-universal-recommendation in PredictionIO repo seems 
outdate compared to one in actionml repo. 


Thanks,
Chan



On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Marcin Ziemiński <ziem...@gmail.com 
<mailto:ziem...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I think that this is a very good idea. Obviously it would require
configuring more concurrent builds to finish in reasonable time, what
should not be a problem. Besides, it would make the official templates be
consistent with every next release of PredictionIO and what is very
important - it would provide many different tests for the repository.
Having working templates of different types could give us more material to
test not only the reliability of PredictionIO, but also its performance
with every change. It would require adding different types of tests and
tools to gather runtime statistics, but this is something I would like to
take a look at in the future.

niedz., 7.08.2016 o 10:21 użytkownik Donald Szeto <don...@apache.org 
<mailto:don...@apache.org>>
napisał:

> We can also make these templates part of the integration test that Chan and
> Marcin just submitted (
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-predictionio/pull/267 
> <https://github.com/apache/incubator-predictionio/pull/267>). That way we
> can
> make commitment to included templates be part of every committer's effort.
> Just my 2c.
>
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Pat Ferrel <p...@occamsmachete.com 
> <mailto:p...@occamsmachete.com>> wrote:
>
> > If this sound ok, I propose the process be:
> > 1) inclusion in the gallery is a PR to the yaml gallery file. This is
> > reviewable by all but takes only one committer to approve and merge.
> > 2) submission for inclusion in the project can be a PR to the new
> > templates directory as Simon suggests. But this may require a more formal
> > vote, and come with some commitment for support and possibly
> consideration
> > of the author for committer status.
> >
> > Someone who knows Apache rules better than me may know the type of vote
> to
> > have for #2, maybe this is only informal review and single committer
> > acceptance too as long as the committer is willing to support the
> template.
> >
> > As far as the Salesforce templates marked official, I’d hope that most
> > would be donated. According to the proposed rules all we need is a PR for
> > each. And again a big thanks to Salesforce!
> >
> >
> > On Aug 4, 2016, at 2:55 PM, Pat Ferrel <p...@occamsmachete.com 
> > <mailto:p...@occamsmachete.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Actually this is mostly a fine idea but I think the bigger question is
> how
> > do we treat templates in general.
> >
> > IMO the maintaining author can decide to contribute them or not and the
> > committers can decide to accept or not. For example in the case of the
> UR I
> > may decide to support and maintain it outside of Apache while some from
> > Salesforce might be submitted as donations.  Donation comes at some
> > obligation. There are lots of examples in Mahout of algorithms whose
> > authors no longer support them. These are slowly being deprecated and
> > removed so I’d like to see a method that avoids this issue.
> >
> > If we allow maintainers to submit templates to the Gallery with a link to
> > code as well as support then donating the template code to Apache is
> > independent of acceptance to the Gallery. Any template donated to Apache
> > should come with some commitment by the author to support it there
> > indefinitely and perhaps even acceptance as a PIO committer—and if they
> > disappear or don’t support the template it is easy to deprecate/remove.
> >
> > That means if Salesforce wants to donate the templates it
> maintains—great.
> > Personally I'd would vote for acceptance of most of them. Then the
> support
> > link can be to the Apache user list or instructions for joining it. If a
> > maintainer wants to stay out of the Apache repo and support separately
> then
> > this is possible also. With all templates treated equally—official or
> > not—and there is a route to becoming official for non-official ones.
> >
> > BTW it might be good to remove the “official” designation in favor of
> > “Apache supported” or the PredictionIO logo or something like that. We
> > really need to encourage template development even if they are not code
> > contributions.
> >
> >
> > On Aug 3, 2016, at 3:32 PM, Simon Chan <si...@salesforce.com 
> > <mailto:si...@salesforce.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I just want to start the discussion about moving previously "official"
> > PredictionIO engine templates into Apache.
> >
> > Official templates are those marked "Official" here:
> > http://templates.prediction.io/ <http://templates.prediction.io/>
> >
> > In order to move them to ASF Git, would the best way be creating
> > sub-directory under PredictionIO repo?
> >
> > Simon
> >
> >
> >
>





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