Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-19 Thread Chris Olivier
I will send results on this soon On 2018/03/13 16:23:37, Chris Olivier wrote: > How many people do we estimate are currently using the Scala interface? > Probably the actual blast radius should be considered. If it is very > small, then we can probably have more "wiggle

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-13 Thread Barber, Christopher
If you were to have two implementations you would want to annotate the old one as deprecated immediately. I don't think you would want to commit to supporting it for more than a couple of months. How many users of the Scala MXNet interface are there in any case? And do they really view the

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-13 Thread Suneel Marthi
The namespace change is the first thing that's done for most projects that come to apache incubation How many production deployments of MXNet Scala API are out there --- 3 ? 2 ? 1.7643 ? I would think its barely a handful of them. Agree with Christopher Barber that MXNEt jumped the gun with

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-13 Thread Chris Olivier
I'm not taking a side here, but just please consider that if you have two separate implementations for awhile, the newer one will start to diverge and over time, it will become harder and harder for the user to port his code. You may find yourself supporting the old code for much longer than you

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-13 Thread Chris Olivier
How many people do we estimate are currently using the Scala interface? Probably the actual blast radius should be considered. If it is very small, then we can probably have more "wiggle room", so to speak. On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Chernov, Anton wrote: > I see (2)

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-13 Thread Nan Zhu
that might be the last thing we want to do, i.e. keeping some code just for the namespace change, I am open to have such a PR with the assumption that 1. changing namespace is scheduled to be finished at 1.x versions (alternatives might be when we graduate as TLP) 2. breaking backward

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-13 Thread Chernov, Anton
I see (2) being the appropriate way to go. Scala code is copied to a new namespace and all the old code gets a deprecation mark which means it's only supported for backwards compatibility and will not be modified unless there will be an urgent fix. On 13.03.18, 16:52, "kellen sunderland"

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-13 Thread kellen sunderland
Maintaining backwards compatibility never results in the prettiest code, but it seems pretty desirable here. There are relatively few files here, so I agree there's some risk but I don't think it would take too much time. Feel free to suggest alternatives Christopher. On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-13 Thread Barber, Christopher
That sounds like a lot of work and it would be easy to get wrong if it is even feasible. On 3/13/18, 11:51 AM, "kellen sunderland" wrote: I don't know about aliasing a namespace in Scala, but I wonder how hard it would be to either (1) provide a fascade

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-13 Thread Nan Zhu
re Chris: I do not have any good idea about this. On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Chris Olivier wrote: > is it possible to somehow alias a namespace in scala > in order to maintain backwards compatibility? > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:21 AM Nan Zhu

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-13 Thread Chris Olivier
is it possible to somehow alias a namespace in scala in order to maintain backwards compatibility? On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:21 AM Nan Zhu wrote: > +1 > > and additional suggestion is do it ASAP > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:21 PM, Chris Olivier

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-13 Thread Nan Zhu
+1 and additional suggestion is do it ASAP On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:21 PM, Chris Olivier wrote: > not sure I understand. How could changing a java namespace (effectively > moving the files to a different location as well as changing the package > names) be

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-13 Thread Steffen Rochel
I suggest the vote should call out if the change is breaking backward compatibility or not. I looked through the scala name changing thread and don't see justification for a backward incompatible change. I do agree it would be good to change the name space, but have not seen a reason why the

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-12 Thread Roshani Nagmote
+1 to change the namespace On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:05 PM, Chris Olivier wrote: > The assumption is that it would be changed more-or-less immediately. ie. > this is like a voted PR, I guess. > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Chris Olivier >

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-12 Thread Chris Olivier
The assumption is that it would be changed more-or-less immediately. ie. this is like a voted PR, I guess. On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Chris Olivier wrote: > It is about changing the namespace. As far as I know, the version number > of the next release is not

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-12 Thread Chris Olivier
It is about changing the namespace. As far as I know, the version number of the next release is not defined. At such point where a release is announced, one could comment, vote whatever on the chosen version of that release, I suppose. But that's beyond the scope of this vote, because the "next

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-12 Thread Marco de Abreu
Just for clarification: Is this vote about changing the namespace with the next release? On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 7:16 PM, Naveen Swamy wrote: > Chris, Thanks for starting this vote. > This is long pending > > +1 to change org.apache namespace > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-12 Thread Naveen Swamy
Chris, Thanks for starting this vote. This is long pending +1 to change org.apache namespace On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Marco de Abreu < marco.g.ab...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I gave my +1 for the code modification. The -1 was for Nan Zhus proposal to > get it into 1.2. > > On Mon, Mar

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-12 Thread Marco de Abreu
I gave my +1 for the code modification. The -1 was for Nan Zhus proposal to get it into 1.2. On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Chris Olivier wrote: > If you're tying this to a process issue, then it's no longer a code > modification technical vote. > > > On Mon, Mar 12,

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-12 Thread Chris Olivier
If you're tying this to a process issue, then it's no longer a code modification technical vote. On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Marco de Abreu < marco.g.ab...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Right > > Chris Olivier schrieb am Mo., 12. März 2018, > 17:38: > > > Are you saying

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-12 Thread Chris Olivier
Are you saying your vote is contingent upon the outcome of a separate vote? On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Marco de Abreu < marco.g.ab...@googlemail.com> wrote: > +1 for changing the namespace > -1 for merging this change into master according to the current policy > > Chris Olivier

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-12 Thread Marco de Abreu
+1 for changing the namespace -1 for merging this change into master according to the current policy Chris Olivier schrieb am Mo., 12. März 2018, 17:34: > Release versioning is a separate issue or vote. At release time, people > can "demand" version X or Y. This vote

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-12 Thread Chris Olivier
Release versioning is a separate issue or vote. At release time, people can "demand" version X or Y. This vote represents "do we want to change the namespace". On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:30 AM, Nan Zhu wrote: > I think we'd specify it will change in the next version

Re: [VOTE] Change Scala namespace from dmlc to org.apache

2018-03-12 Thread Nan Zhu
I think we'd specify it will change in the next version (1.2)? On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Chris Olivier wrote: > This vote is for the code-change of altering the Scala API namespace from > dmlc to org.apache. > > > Vote will conclude on Thursday, 5pm PDT. > > Thank