Hi Sheng, I had a discussion with nvidia folks offline today (@ptrendx et. al.). I strongly feel that the AMP feature should be included as part of the release: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/14173 . The PR is aimed for completion for next week but reviews and RFC discussions may take some time. I would request to extend the release code freeze by 2 weeks. Also, I would like to include https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Conversion+from+FP32+to+Mixed+Precision+Models which depends on the AMP PR. I am also aiming for adding a PR by this week end or early next week, but reviews will take longer than May 17th.
Anirudh On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 11:49 PM Sheng Zha <szha....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > While 1.4.1 vote on general@incubator is still on going, I’d like to > propose that we start preparing 1.5.0 release. > > 1.5.0 will include changes that dates back to last year and there has been > a lot of new features and improvements in it, so it will likely time us > more time to prepare than 1.4.1. I propose the following timeline: > - Cut release branch: release branch already cut. Will sync with master > branch on 5/15/2019 EOD. > - Code freeze: 5/17/2019. No more changes unless the release branch is in > a broken state. > - Tag and vote: 5/20/2019 onward. > > Lai Wei (roywei@) expressed to me offline that he’s willing to help drive > this release as release manager, and I’m happy to help again as committer. > > If you have features in progress that you’d like to include in 1.5.0: > - Add your feature to the scope: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.5.0+Release+Plan+and+Status > - Indicate in this thread: > - how confident you are about making it happen before the code freeze. > If not confident, provide estimate for a more manageable code freeze date > so that people can discuss whether to extend the deadline or to skip one > release for it. > - whether your PR requires more attention to make it happen. > > Thanks for your attention. Comments and suggestions are also welcome. > > -sz
