Re: assimilation of mshadow into the MXNet codebase

2020-07-26 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, In the case of Intel and other companies, it may be that their employee contracts do not allow employees to contribute to OS projects. It more likely that the contributor doesn’t own copyright of the code but their employer does. A CCLA give a clear indication that the contributors are inta

Re: Distribution of release candidates

2020-07-26 Thread Sheng Zha
Hi Justin, Please excuse the delay. I replied on general@ [1]. I suggest that we continue the discussion in that thread and not fork the discussion. Regards, Sheng [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r149bb0721c40f145d3a6a9c847f0172cffa5ec78f84d1ee775b4103c%40%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org

Re: assimilation of mshadow into the MXNet codebase

2020-07-26 Thread Sheng Zha
Justin, Are you OK with proceeding? Regards, Sheng On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 8:30 PM Tianqi Chen wrote: > As long as we have CLA covering for the majority of the code(which I > believe so), I think we should be good. > Just like the case of Apache only requires iCLA from committers. > > The rati

Re: assimilation of mshadow into the MXNet codebase

2020-07-26 Thread Tianqi Chen
As long as we have CLA covering for the majority of the code(which I believe so), I think we should be good. Just like the case of Apache only requires iCLA from committers. The rationale is that normal contributions are already in the form of ALv2, in the case of a(unlikely) dispute, the communit

Distribution of release candidates

2020-07-26 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, I asked on the incubator vote but didn't get a reply. Can the PPMC please explain why release candidates are being released in this way, in particular by companies who employee MXnet PPMC members. What steps will the PPMC will take to stop this from happening in the future? Thanks, Justin

Re: assimilation of mshadow into the MXNet codebase

2020-07-26 Thread Sheng Zha
Hi Justin, Thanks, that's a good point. I think we have already received CCLA from Intel. I will take that into account when providing the next update. Regards, Sheng On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 5:39 PM Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > > Several peoples in below list are from Intel and I have added

Re: assimilation of mshadow into the MXNet codebase

2020-07-26 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Several peoples in below list are from Intel and I have added them into CC. Has Intel signed a CCLA? And if so does it list people who are allowed to contribute to this project? Are there any others on that list who employer’s may need to also sign CCLAs if we don’t have them? Thanks, Ju

RE: assimilation of mshadow into the MXNet codebase

2020-07-26 Thread Zhao, Patric
Several peoples in below list are from Intel and I have added them into CC. Sheng, you can contact with them for ICLA. Thanks, --Patric > -Original Message- > From: Sheng Zha > Sent: Monday, July 27, 2020 5:33 AM > To: Justin Mclean > Cc: d...@mxnet.apache.org; Wall Michael ; Bob Paul

Re: assimilation of mshadow into the MXNet codebase

2020-07-26 Thread Sheng Zha
Hi, Here's an update on this issue. We are still missing the ICLAs from 32 (out of 70) mshadow contributors, accounting for a total of 62 (out of 913) commits. (@ap-hynninen passed away a few years ago and is not included). I reached out to them through email and other channels to collect ICLA for