Thanks, Przemek. We're catching up for MKL-DNN upgrade parts but currently the unstable CI is slowdown our development progress a lot. Hope we can merge all PRs in next week if CI is back to work soon.
I will update to you for our progress. Thanks, --Patric > -----Original Message----- > From: Przemysław Trędak <ptre...@apache.org> > Sent: Friday, October 25, 2019 10:25 PM > To: d...@mxnet.apache.org > Subject: Re: MXNet 1.6.0 release > > Dear MXNet Community > > Last night I updated 1.6.x branch to point to current master. The code freeze > is > now in effect. > > That said, since most of the features intended for 1.6 release are still not > fully > finished (a few PRs for BERT GPU performance, multiple MKLDNN PRs, multiple > PRs tagged NumPy etc.) we decided to go with a "soft" code freeze approach. > Only the PRs that are in the scope of 1.6 release will now be accepted into > 1.6.x > branch. The hard code freeze is planned next week, Oct 31st. > > While contributors of those in-scope PRs and their reviewers work to meet that > deadline, I would like to call for action for the rest of the MXNet Community > to > test, raise issues and fix the bugs in the release. > > Thank you > Przemek > > On 2019/10/11 00:00:34, Przemys��aw Tr��dak <ptre...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hi MXNet Community, > > > > As the 1.5.1 patch release is done (many thanks Tao!), it is time to > > prepare for > the next minor release of MXNet - 1.6.0. > > > > I (ptrendx@github / ptredak@mxnet Slack) would like to manage the release > of 1.6.0. As it will be the first time for me to manage a release, Sam > (samskalicky) > and Lin (apeforest) agreed to help guiding me through the process. > > > > Thanks to Sheng there is a GitHub issue[1] listing major features that > > should go > into the 1.6.0, please add any features that you want included there. > > > > That said, as we target November for the release, to accommodate for > extensive testing and bugfixing, the code freeze date is set to October 24th > 23:59PST. Please reach out to me as soon as possible if you feel that you will > need an extension of that deadline for your feature. > > > > Sheng created a page on cwiki[2] about the release, I will populate it with > > the > information and tracked issues and PRs. > > > > Thank you and let's make the great 1.6.0 release together! > > Przemek > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/15589 > > [2] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.6.0+Release+Plan+and+ > Status > >
