+1. Thanks, Chris! Regards, Wei
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 7:26 PM Yeung Sai Ho <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) > > > >
