Up-streaming MXNet HIP Port

2018-10-23 Thread Karnam, Srihari
Dear All, Please review the design for Up-Streaming MXNet HIP Port. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uGr1KPVDqDVUwnhM0vtmxkZZpE2Mf9slNF9e2IbwVj0/edit?usp=sharing Regards, Srihari Karnam

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-23 Thread Pedro Larroy
Hi Steffen I don't see that text in the proposal. I personally think the bar should be the same for everyone independent of their affiliation, as per Apache ways of working, and per ethical principles of equality and meritocracy, otherwise we open the door to discrimination. This old movie with

reminder - Go to start of banner Hangout October 24th 2018 8am and 5pm PDT

2018-10-23 Thread Steffen Rochel
Please see conf call information for 8am and 5pm PDT session and proposed agenda below. Pleas note different conf call login between both session. In case there is a problem again with conf call I will update slack and dev@ . Steffen Proposed Agenda: 1. Introduction of participants 2. Next

Re: [DISCUSS] - Revisions to Committer Criteria

2018-10-23 Thread Steffen Rochel
Carin - I got feedback on my proposal and made changes. I incorporated Tianqi's suggesiton that we should strive to nominate committer/PPMC candidates from outside ones own organization. It should not be considered as a hard rule, but recommendation. Steffen On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 2:18 PM Carin

Re: [Discussion] Recognise Reviewers, Besides Committers and PMC

2018-10-23 Thread Tianqi Chen
> > To become a reviewer , he/she would have to have some > history of code review in MXNet. In contrary, we should to bring reviewers who have contributed to the repo, but do not have code review history before, there is always a time gap between someone who contributed something, to someone

Re: [Discussion] Recognise Reviewers, Besides Committers and PMC

2018-10-23 Thread Anirudh
Hi, There is nothing stopping committers from soliciting reviews from contributors. This is a good suggestion and committers should do this much more often. I am assuming that the selection process for reviewers also goes through PPMC. To become a reviewer , he/she would have to have some history

Gluon CV v0.3 release post

2018-10-23 Thread Adesoji Adeshina
Community, Please check out and share the post: https://medium.com/apache-mxnet/gluoncv-0-3-a-new-horizon-564326364e16 for v0.3 of gluon-cv, detailing improvements to existing implementations of state of the art cv models. Particularly of note, is the accuracy improvement for the ResNet family

Re: [Discussion] Recognise Reviewers, Besides Committers and PMC

2018-10-23 Thread Tianqi Chen
It is true that is a person is trusted to review code they should be considered as a committer. On the other hand, it is also super valuable to solicit reviews from contributors who have the potential to become committers. These code reviews may not necessarily directly grant the merge of the

Re: [Discussion] Recognise Reviewers, Besides Committers and PMC

2018-10-23 Thread Tianqi Chen
It is true that is a person is trusted to review code they should be considered as a reviewer. But what I am trying to say is that -- it is also super valuable to solicit reviews from contributors who have the potential to become committers. These code reviews may not necessarily directly grant

Re: [Discussion] Recognise Reviewers, Besides Committers and PMC

2018-10-23 Thread Chris Olivier
It's not my intent to kill this (I just asked a question). What are mentors' input? On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 3:50 PM Tianqi Chen wrote: > To be clear, we are not splitting the committers into reviewers, we are > recognizing an additional set of contributors who could become potential >

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-23 Thread Tianqi Chen
Hi Pedro: If any of the Amazonians have enough merit to get the committership. The PMCs outside Amazon should recognize and bring them to the committership -- This proposal is not about discriminating against anyone. Please do note that this community is bigger than Amazon itself -- there are

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-23 Thread Tianqi Chen
Hi Pedro: If any of the Amazonians have enough merit to get the committership. The PMCs outside Amazon should recognize and bring them to the committership -- This proposal is not about discriminating against anyone. Please do note that this community is bigger than Amazon itself -- there are

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-23 Thread Steffen Rochel
Tianqi and Pedro - I suggested the following in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Become+an+Apache+MXNet+%28incubating%29+Committer+and+PPMC+Member+Proposal : In general, a nominee for PPMC will be evaluated based on the merit and contribution, independent of his affiliation.

Re: [Discussion] PMC and Committer Courtesy: Only Propose Candidate in a Different Organization

2018-10-23 Thread Pedro Larroy
Hi Tianqi, there's a saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I think most of us here are enthusiastic about increasing diversity of contributions to this project and are working actively towards this. Having any kind of positive or negative discrimination seems to me like it

Re: [Discussion] Recognise Reviewers, Besides Committers and PMC

2018-10-23 Thread Bob Paulin
Generally if a person is trusted to review code they should be considered as a committer.  Agree that having good reviewers are important but the way most projects recognize those efforts is by making them committers. - Bob On 10/22/2018 5:23 PM, Chris Olivier wrote: > Are there any other

Re: Reproducing test failures on CI

2018-10-23 Thread Anton Chernov
Dear MXNet community, Unfortunately, due to various reasons, we need to reschedule the demo to next week's user group, to 30th of October. Best regards, Anton вт, 16 окт. 2018 г. в 18:03, Pedro Larroy : > These are two separate events. The London meetup is not related to Anton's > original