Hi All, I am helping to draft the SINGA board report to be submitted by next Wednesday 9th December 2020. It is a regular report to be submitted every 3 months.
If there is any comment or anything to add, please feel free to let me know. Thanks a lot! The draft is here: ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache SINGA was founded 2019-10-16 (a year ago) There are currently 22 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Chris Yeung on 2020-04-17. - No new committers. Last addition was Zhang Zhaoqi on 2020-07-01. ## Project Activity: The community has released SINGA version 3.1.0 on 30th October 2020. The main features of this release include: 1. Update Tensor core module to support tensor transformation (reshape, transpose) for tensors up to 6 dimensions. 2. Add new tensor operators into the autograd module. 3. Reconstruct sonnx to support creating ONNX operators from both layer and autograd. 4. Replace the Travis CI with Github workflow. Add quality and coverage management. 5. Add compiling and packaging scripts to create wheel packages for distribution. Apart from this release, the community has been working on: 1. Supporting half-precision floating-point format (fp16) in deep learning models and computational kernels. 2. Adding more SINGA onnx models to cover a wider spectrum of practical applications. 3. Looking for the best option to enable GPU unit tests on all the submitted PRs using Github actions workflow. The current Github test server doesn't provide a GPU to run the CUDA unit tests, so we are going to evaluate the self-host runner option. ## Community Health: According to the statistic, there are 67 PRs opened and 87 PRs closed on GitHub in the past quarter. It indicates that the community is active in the development. Also, according to the statistic there is 33% increase of code contributors, which may indicate that more people are interested in the development of SINGA. Best Regards, Chris (YEUNG Sai Ho)
