Re: Discussing plans for next MXNet releases

2019-04-04 Thread Hagay Lupesko
Thanks Kellen, Pedro and Sheng for the feedback. Kellen - - Thanks for proposing 1.5 features. Kindly note them on the issue Sheng created: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/14619 - For your 2.0 proposals - can you please update them in the issue Sheng created:

Re: Discussing plans for next MXNet releases

2019-04-02 Thread Sheng Zha
Hi Hagay, Thanks for taking the initiative. The proposed scope in this thread is in my opinion too large to fit in a single thread, so I'd suggest that we start separate threads for each individual release item. To elaborate on the reasons based on each individual item: - For 1.4.1 which is in

Re: Discussing plans for next MXNet releases

2019-04-02 Thread Pedro Larroy
Great initiative. I would like to add the issue that tracks APIs that we would like to break for 2.0 so we can take the chance to streamline and improve customer facing code: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/9686 I would be happy to volunteer for 2.0 release with assistance from

Re: Discussing plans for next MXNet releases

2019-04-02 Thread kellen sunderland
Release breakdown makes sense to me Hagay. Thanks for initiating a discussion. Some features that I'm personally looking forward to that I hope can make it into 1.5 (schedule permitting): * TensorRT being integrated with the subgraph API * VNNI MKLDNN support * AMP training in MXNet I like

Discussing plans for next MXNet releases

2019-04-02 Thread Hagay Lupesko
Dear MXNet community, I wanted to initiate a discussion about the plan and scope for the next MXNet releases. I suggest we focus on three releases, and get the process going in parallel: (1) 1.4.1 - patch release on top of 1.4.0 to address some perf regressions and memory leaks I am aware of,