Who is the gluon “Brand Owner”? On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:43 AM Chris Olivier <cjolivie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Who is the gluon "brand owner"? > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:13 AM Qing Lan <lanking...@live.com> wrote: > >> Hi Lieven, >> >> Thanks for your comments. After the discussion with several committers >> and contributors offline, we agreed that there are space for improvement. >> >> >> 1. About the Gluon naming >> >> As we know, Gluon is born with the unique API design pattern. It >> gradually became the dominant Python front end for MXNet. I would suggest >> to discuss more with the Brand owner and see if there could be a further >> integration with MXNet. To MXNet itself, it becomes more popular with this >> frontend. We lean on the strong community and improve our product better by >> consuming the feedback from it. >> >> 2. Diversity of the PMC >> Currently, we have 40 PMC numbers from different companies, like Amazon, >> Uber, NVIDIA, ByteDance and a lot more. We are trying to grow the number >> and invite indivials from different companies as well as research institute. >> >> 3. Release rotation >> In the history, most of the releases were done by the Amazon side. >> Currently, we are moving on to rotate this responsibility with >> contributors/committers not from Amazon to start working on them. >> >> 4. Committers from different firm/institution should have real work >> on MXNet >> I can tell from the issues/PRs/rfcs they submitted and indeed and indeed >> we should encourage the committers who is less active to be involved into >> MXNet contribution. >> >> Thanks, >> Qing >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Lieven Govaerts <l...@mobsol.be> >> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2019 5:59 >> To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org <dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org> >> Cc: d...@mxnet.apache.org <d...@mxnet.apache.org> >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Apache MXNet: Path to graduation >> >> Hi Qing, >> >> as a user and ASF member observing this project: >> >> On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 01:44, Qing Lan <lanking...@live.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I would like to start a thread to discuss about the graduation for >> Apache >> > MXNet. From my time working in the community, I saw a great improvement >> in >> > most of the area that we do to make MXNet a better place. We keep >> tracking >> > on all of the issues user raised and reviewing PRs. We follow the Apache >> > Way to release the package in official repository. >> > >> > >> in terms of code, documentation, visibility this project is certainly in a >> healthy state, I see a lot of interest of companies and people, the >> community is growing... As a user that gives me confidence my time >> invested >> in this product is well spent. >> >> >> > In 2017, Apache MXNet joined the Apache incubation project. I think now >> is >> > a good time to review the path to graduate MXNet and move forward to it. >> > Please feel free to share your thoughts on graduation and space for >> > improvement. >> > >> > >> If I may share one observation: I don't see the community working a lot on >> non-code topics. One example that I personally find important is the >> discussion of the Gluon brand. People have expressed confusion about how >> the name is used by multiple non-ASF projects, the MXNet team finds the >> Gluon name very valuable yet the discussion on how to protect the name and >> decide on acceptable use by other projects has stalled [1]. I suggest you >> make a decision on this topic before you go for graduation. >> >> regards, >> >> Lieven >> >> [1] >> >> https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/mxnet-dev/201903.mbox/%3ccac_cu1gi+3s6ob48kt0x5wta4oxdum8uq9tmnyku2ujyaya...@mail.gmail.com%3e >> >> >> >> >> > You can find more about graduation policy in here: >> > https://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Qing >> > >> >
