I think it's a good idea to make an alpha release to give people an early impression.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 01:11 Leonard Lausen <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear MXNet community, > > I'd like to discuss start voting on a MXNet 2 Alpha release soon. As you > all > know, ASF policy requires that any publication of MXNet outside our > development > community must be endorsed by the PPMC and Incubator via a release vote. > According to the ASF Release policy, 'Releases that only represent a > project > milestone and are intended only for bleeding-edge developers working > outside the > project are called "alpha".' > > The GluonNLP project for example has started adopting MXNet 2 and has > found it > to work well for the requirements of the project. With GluonNLP's success > in > adopting MXNet 2, we may consider our development to have reached a > milestone > and can consider releasing an Alpha of MXNet 2 so that bleeding-edge > developers can start making use of the great work that went into MXNet 2. > > On the road towards a stable MXNet 2 we may vote on a beta release later. > Missing items for a beta are tracked in > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/19139 > > Please let me know if you have any concerns about this. Otherwise we may > start > to prepare for an Alpha release soon. > > Best regards > Leonard > >
