Thanks Sam! Do we have an automated method to ensure all prs are present in the appropriate branches? Maybe compare the underlying commits of prs or the content.
-Marco On Sun, Sep 20, 2020, 07:22 Skalicky, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi MXNet Community, > > As we move forward on the plan for v1.8 I wanted to update you on the > progress. Yesterday (Sept 18th) was the code/feature freeze and we cut the > v1.8.x branch today [1]. We will start testing the release branch. Heads > up, we’re planning to have the vote from Sept 26th – Oct 3rd [2], please > set aside some time to help evaluate the release candidate and vote. Ive > created a PR on v1.x to update the version to 1.9 [3] for those > knowledgeable on particular areas (website, examples, language bindings, > etc.) please review and point out any other files that need updated. > > We have also noticed that a few PRs that were backported from master to > v1.7.x branch for the v1.7.0 release were not also backported to the v1.x > branch. So currently they are missing and wont be in the v1.8.0 release. > This is a problem for backwards compatibility, and will reintroduce any > bugs that were fixed in 1.7 back in 1.8. Here are a few we’ve found so far: > [4-7]. We would greatly appreciate the community’s help in finding and > backporting any missing PRs to the v1.x and now v1.8.x branches. If you > backported (or reviewed/approved/merged) a PR from master to v1.7.x please > double check that it was also backported to v1.x. If not, please reply to > this thread with the PR to let us know and help us backport these PRs. > > Thanks! > Sam > > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/tree/v1.8.x > [2] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.8.0+Release+Plan+and+Status > [3] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/19196 > > [4] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/18649 > [5] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/18220 > [6] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/18261 > [7] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/18482 > > From: "Skalicky, Sam" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at 9:56 AM > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Announce] Upcoming Apache MXNet (incubating) 1.8.0 release > > Hi MXNet Community, > > Thanks to Ciyong and the Intel folks the 1.7.0 release of MXNet has > completed! We’ve been tracking the subsequent 1.8.0 release here [1] for a > couple months now. Our next milestone is feature/code freeze on September > 18th. If you are planning to include any other features into the release, > please let us know ASAP on the GitHub issue [1]. > > Thanks! > Sam > > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/18800 >
