Thanks to everybody who attended the MXNet post mortem and release brainstorm call yesterday. We had 15 callers for the morning session and 3 people in a room in the afternoon session.
Summary of the post mortem is captured here <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Release+Retrospective+Apache+MXNet+v1.2.0>. Please feel free to add and comment. Lots of good suggestions how to improve our CI process. Please contribute to the suggested improvements. Proposal for the next release content and schedule is summarized here <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Project+Proposals+for+next+MXNet+Release>. Please review, refine and add links to design specs where needed. Taliesin from Wolfram Design offered to share experience writing good tests covering different data types and I think we all could learn from it and improve the flaky tests. I will coordinate with Taliesin to setup a session. Q&A from the call: - Taliesin: support for control flow, discuss on dev@, avoid unrolling of operators, enable reshaping of operators, PR was rejected, provide more details - https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/8949 - Anton: need to refine process for patch release (i.e. refinement of Release Versioning and Branching <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Release+Versioning+and+Branching> ) - how and who decides about patch release - monthly call: yes (Haibin, Anton, Wolfram Research) I summarized the calls as well here <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Meetups+and+Hangouts> and will follow up with the suggestions. Please provide feedback on preferred monthly call times, so we can minimize inconvenience while maximizing possible attendance. Please leave feedback at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Meetups+and+Hangouts or reply. Time planer: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20180530&p2=283&p3=176&p4=37&p5=179&p6=33 Proposal UTC 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Vote count (add name or X) A X B X C X D X add as needed Regards, Steffen
