Re: [VOTE] Release MXNet version 1.2.1.RC1

[Roshani Nagmote]

Hi All,

Could you please test and vote for this release? Voting will end tomorrow
by 5:50 pm PDT.

Thanks,
Roshani

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 4:53 PM Roshani Nagmote 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to propose a vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating)
> version
> 1.2.1.RC1. Voting will start now (Monday, Jul 9th) and end at 5:50 PM
> PDT, Thursday, July 12th.
>
> Link to release candidate 1.2.1.rc1:
> *https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.2.1.rc1
> *
>
> View this page, click on "Build from Source", and use the source code
> obtained from 1.2.1.rc1 tag:
> https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/install/index.html
>
> (Note: The README.md points to the 1.2.1 tag and does not work at the
> moment.)
>
> Please remember to test first before voting accordingly:
>
> +1 = approve
> +0 = no opinion
> -1 = disapprove (provide reason)
>
> Thanks,
> Roshani
>

Re: Proposal to release the Examples for Scala in V1.3

[Naveen Swamy]

Qing, its great that you are working on improving the Scala Examples with
documentation and tests.
Ideally, we shouldn't have any memory leaks..it erodes trust with our
users, however I understand it can take significant time and debugging
effort to resolve them. Given that these leaks already exist, may be should
call out on the documentation that this is a known issue and we will work
on it.
IMO for this case making incremental improvements to examples makes sense.

I would like to hear what others think.
-Naveen

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Qing Lan  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to propose the release plan for MXNet Scala examples in V1.3.
> Currently, the examples in the main repository are not maintained for a
> long time. I have spent some time to use the improved Scala API (known as
> the .api) to improve the examples with documentation to run and add CI
> tests. However, I am facing the difficulties to resolve memory leaks as
> most of the examples did not contains memory leak fixes. It crashes the CI
> because of that. We can temporarily disable the CI test for some of the
> examples and release them with 1.3 and enable them once we have a better GC
> in MXNet Scala. Here is a brief Pros and Cons for this release:
>
> Pros:
>
>   *   A good set of demos on how to use improved Training API
>   *   Examples are fixed with full documentation to help to run them
>
> Cons:
>
>   *   Examples contains the memory leak issues may cause problems
>
> Please kindly share your ideas in this thread and I am really appreciate
> for your help.
>
> Thanks,
> Qing
>

Proposal to release the Examples for Scala in V1.3

[Qing Lan]

Hi all,

I would like to propose the release plan for MXNet Scala examples in V1.3. 
Currently, the examples in the main repository are not maintained for a long 
time. I have spent some time to use the improved Scala API (known as the .api) 
to improve the examples with documentation to run and add CI tests. However, I 
am facing the difficulties to resolve memory leaks as most of the examples did 
not contains memory leak fixes. It crashes the CI because of that. We can 
temporarily disable the CI test for some of the examples and release them with 
1.3 and enable them once we have a better GC in MXNet Scala. Here is a brief 
Pros and Cons for this release:

Pros:

  *   A good set of demos on how to use improved Training API
  *   Examples are fixed with full documentation to help to run them

Cons:

  *   Examples contains the memory leak issues may cause problems

Please kindly share your ideas in this thread and I am really appreciate for 
your help.

Thanks,
Qing