+3 (one vote for me, myself, and I :-D)
On 11/3/20, 4:13 PM, "Marco de Abreu" <[email protected]> wrote:
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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
>
>
