[VOTE] Release MXNet version 1.3.0.RC0

[Roshani Nagmote]

Hi all,

I would like to propose a vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version
1.3.0.RC0. Voting will start now (Friday, Aug 31st) and end at 7:00 PM
PDT, Wednesday, Sept 5th.

Link to release notes:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases

Link to release candidate 1.3.0.rc0:
*https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.3.0.rc
0*

View this page, click on "Build from Source", and use the source code
obtained from 1.3.0.rc0 tag:
https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/install/index.html

Please remember to TEST first before voting accordingly:

+1 = approve
+0 = no opinion
-1 = disapprove (provide reason)

Thanks,
Roshani

Re: Release plan - MXNET 1.3

[Roshani Nagmote]

Thanks Pedro for bringing up this issue. Will add it in release notes.

@Sandeep, Thanks for working on this bug. For now, not prioritizing fix in
the release branch. We can address it in the next releases.

As we have not added Scala maven packages in previous release testing, we
will not be delaying the voting process anymore.
I will send a separate release voting email.

Thanks,
Roshani

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 10:34 AM sandeep krishnamurthy <
sandeep.krishn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Roshani/Sheng/MXNet community,
>
> Thanks for handling 1.3 release.
>
> Here is an issue - https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/11849,
> where you cannot import non-fp32 models into Gluon Symbol block. I think
> this is an important feature for our users who imports a FP16, FP64 models
> into Gluon.
> I have created a PR for the fix -
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12412 reviewed by one
> community member (Lin) and I would like to work towards getting this
> merged, please chime in for review.
>
> Since we have not started the vote yet, I suggest we cherry pick this bug
> fix in to the RC.
>
> Let me know your suggestions.
>
> Best,
> Sandeep
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:38 AM Pedro Larroy  >
> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > The armv7 docker builds are broken due to a problem with dockcross. Shall
> > we add this to the release notes?  I'm working on a fix. Best would be to
> > get the fix on the release branch.
> >
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/12421
> >
> > Pedro
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:38 AM Roshani Nagmote <
> roshaninagmo...@gmail.com
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I was waiting to run nightly builds to pass on the release branch. So
> RC0
> > > was a bit delayed.
> > > Now, we have tagged the release candidate! Thanks a lot Sheng for
> helping
> > > with this!
> > >
> > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.3.0.rc0
> > >
> > > Voting process to test RC0 will start after Scala package gets
> published
> > to
> > > maven repositories.
> > > I had an offline discussion with Naveen and Qing who will be working on
> > > publishing Scala packages. They want to include Scala packages in
> testing
> > > as well.
> > >
> > > I will communicate timelines for voting soon.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Roshani
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:24 AM kellen sunderland <
> > > kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Great news!  Thanks for the efforts Roshani + Sheng.
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 6:58 PM Roshani Nagmote <
> > > roshaninagmo...@gmail.com
> > > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Release branch v1.3.x was cut yesterday night. Thanks, @Sheng for
> > > helping
> > > > > with this and merging a bunch of PRs. I will be running tests on
> the
> > > > branch
> > > > > and move forward with the release steps now. :)
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Roshani
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:12 AM Roshani Nagmote <
> > > > > roshaninagmo...@gmail.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks Patric for reviewing the notes. Updated the doc with
> MKL-DNN
> > > > > points
> > > > > > you mentioned accordingly.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > Roshani
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 8:03 PM Zhao, Patric <
> > patric.z...@intel.com>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> Hi Roshani,
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Good notes :)
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Several items about the performance and MKL-DNN in the below,
> > please
> > > > > help
> > > > > >> take a review.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> @Da, Alex, if anything about MKL-DNN is missed, feel free to
> add.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> *Performance improvement
> > > > > >> +Support for dot(dns, csr) = dns and dot(dns, csr.T) = dns on
> CPU
> > > > > >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/3
> > > > > >> +Performance improvement for Batch Dot on CPU from mshadow
> > > > > >> https://github.com/dmlc/mshadow/pull/342
> > > > > >> -Fix the topk regression issue (#12197)
> > > > > >> This is the bugfix rather than performance improvements
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> *MKL-DNN
> > > > > >> More functionality supports:
> > > > > >> +Support more activation functions, "sigmoid", "tanh",
> "softrelu"
> > > > > >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/10336
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Debugging functionality:
> > > > > >> +Result check
> > > > > >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12069
> > > > > >> +Backend switch
> > > > > >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12058
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Thanks,
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> --Patric
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> > -Original Message-
> > > > > >> > From: Roshani Nagmote [mailto:roshaninagmo...@gmail.com]
> > > > > >> > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 1:53 AM
> > > > > >> > To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org
> > > > > >> > Subject: Re: Release plan - MXNET 1.3
> > > > > >> >
> > > > > >> > Hi,
> > > > > >> >

Re: Nightly Builds Not Working for Cu90MKL?

[Alfredo Luque]

No worries! I think we’ll stick with this version for the time being since
we haven’t had issues with it. Building from source is a non-starter since
this is part of an automated docker build for us and we don’t want all the
build-dependencies.

Thanks for looking into this!

On August 31, 2018 at 2:37:20 PM, Anton Chernov (mecher...@gmail.com) wrote:

Thank you for noticing!

We are working on automating the process, but currently it's a manual
effort to publish to PyPi. We are experiencing some problems with the
publishing, but the issue should get resolved soon.

Best
Anton

пт, 31 авг. 2018 г. в 23:29, Alfredo Luque :

> See here:
> https://pypi.org/project/mxnet-cu90mkl/#history
>
> No builds show up since 8/22. From what I can tell, other variants (eg;
> mxnet-mkl) are up to date.
>
> On August 31, 2018 at 2:24:30 PM, Anton Chernov (mecher...@gmail.com)
> wrote:
>
> Hi Alfredo!
>
> Could you provide more info on this? Where do you get the information?
>
> Best
> Anton
>
> пт, 31 авг. 2018 г. в 22:49, Alfredo Luque
>  >:
>
> > Just curious why the latest build is 2018-08-22 while the other variants
> > are up to date.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > —
> > Alfredo Luque
> > Software Engineer
> > Machine Learning Infrastructure
> > Airbnb
> > San Francisco, CA
> >
>
> —
> Alfredo Luque
> Software Engineer
> Machine Learning Infrastructure
> Airbnb
> San Francisco, CA
>
—
Alfredo Luque
Software Engineer
Machine Learning Infrastructure
Airbnb
San Francisco, CA

Re: Nightly Builds Not Working for Cu90MKL?

[Anton Chernov]

Thank you for noticing!

We are working on automating the process, but currently it's a manual
effort to publish to PyPi. We are experiencing some problems with the
publishing, but the issue should get resolved soon.

Best
Anton

пт, 31 авг. 2018 г. в 23:29, Alfredo Luque :

> See here:
> https://pypi.org/project/mxnet-cu90mkl/#history
>
> No builds show up since 8/22. From what I can tell, other variants (eg;
> mxnet-mkl) are up to date.
>
> On August 31, 2018 at 2:24:30 PM, Anton Chernov (mecher...@gmail.com)
> wrote:
>
> Hi Alfredo!
>
> Could you provide more info on this? Where do you get the information?
>
> Best
> Anton
>
> пт, 31 авг. 2018 г. в 22:49, Alfredo Luque
>  >:
>
> > Just curious why the latest build is 2018-08-22 while the other variants
> > are up to date.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > —
> > Alfredo Luque
> > Software Engineer
> > Machine Learning Infrastructure
> > Airbnb
> > San Francisco, CA
> >
>
> —
> Alfredo Luque
> Software Engineer
> Machine Learning Infrastructure
> Airbnb
> San Francisco, CA
>

Re: Nightly Builds Not Working for Cu90MKL?

[Sheng Zha]

Hi Alfredo,

Looks like the recent increase in binary size is causing timeouts when 
publishing. I'm looking into it. In the meantime, please build from the source 
until it's resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience.

-sz

On 2018/08/31 21:29:05, Alfredo Luque  wrote: 
> See here:
> https://pypi.org/project/mxnet-cu90mkl/#history
> 
> No builds show up since 8/22. From what I can tell, other variants (eg;
> mxnet-mkl) are up to date.
> 
> On August 31, 2018 at 2:24:30 PM, Anton Chernov (mecher...@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> Hi Alfredo!
> 
> Could you provide more info on this? Where do you get the information?
> 
> Best
> Anton
> 
> пт, 31 авг. 2018 г. в 22:49, Alfredo Luque  >:
> 
> > Just curious why the latest build is 2018-08-22 while the other variants
> > are up to date.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > —
> > Alfredo Luque
> > Software Engineer
> > Machine Learning Infrastructure
> > Airbnb
> > San Francisco, CA
> >
> 
> —
> Alfredo Luque
> Software Engineer
> Machine Learning Infrastructure
> Airbnb
> San Francisco, CA
> 

Re: Nightly Builds Not Working for Cu90MKL?

[Alfredo Luque]

See here:
https://pypi.org/project/mxnet-cu90mkl/#history

No builds show up since 8/22. From what I can tell, other variants (eg;
mxnet-mkl) are up to date.

On August 31, 2018 at 2:24:30 PM, Anton Chernov (mecher...@gmail.com) wrote:

Hi Alfredo!

Could you provide more info on this? Where do you get the information?

Best
Anton

пт, 31 авг. 2018 г. в 22:49, Alfredo Luque :

> Just curious why the latest build is 2018-08-22 while the other variants
> are up to date.
>
> Thanks,
>
> —
> Alfredo Luque
> Software Engineer
> Machine Learning Infrastructure
> Airbnb
> San Francisco, CA
>

—
Alfredo Luque
Software Engineer
Machine Learning Infrastructure
Airbnb
San Francisco, CA

Re: Nightly Builds Not Working for Cu90MKL?

[Anton Chernov]

Hi Alfredo!

Could you provide more info on this? Where do you get the information?

Best
Anton

пт, 31 авг. 2018 г. в 22:49, Alfredo Luque :

> Just curious why the latest build is 2018-08-22 while the other variants
> are up to date.
>
> Thanks,
>
> —
> Alfredo Luque
> Software Engineer
> Machine Learning Infrastructure
> Airbnb
> San Francisco, CA
>

Nightly Builds Not Working for Cu90MKL?

[Alfredo Luque]

Just curious why the latest build is 2018-08-22 while the other variants
are up to date.

Thanks,

—
Alfredo Luque
Software Engineer
Machine Learning Infrastructure
Airbnb
San Francisco, CA

Re: Release plan - MXNET 1.3

[sandeep krishnamurthy]

Hello Roshani/Sheng/MXNet community,

Thanks for handling 1.3 release.

Here is an issue - https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/11849,
where you cannot import non-fp32 models into Gluon Symbol block. I think
this is an important feature for our users who imports a FP16, FP64 models
into Gluon.
I have created a PR for the fix -
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12412 reviewed by one
community member (Lin) and I would like to work towards getting this
merged, please chime in for review.

Since we have not started the vote yet, I suggest we cherry pick this bug
fix in to the RC.

Let me know your suggestions.

Best,
Sandeep

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:38 AM Pedro Larroy 
wrote:

> Hi
>
> The armv7 docker builds are broken due to a problem with dockcross. Shall
> we add this to the release notes?  I'm working on a fix. Best would be to
> get the fix on the release branch.
>
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/12421
>
> Pedro
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:38 AM Roshani Nagmote  >
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was waiting to run nightly builds to pass on the release branch. So RC0
> > was a bit delayed.
> > Now, we have tagged the release candidate! Thanks a lot Sheng for helping
> > with this!
> >
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.3.0.rc0
> >
> > Voting process to test RC0 will start after Scala package gets published
> to
> > maven repositories.
> > I had an offline discussion with Naveen and Qing who will be working on
> > publishing Scala packages. They want to include Scala packages in testing
> > as well.
> >
> > I will communicate timelines for voting soon.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Roshani
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 10:24 AM kellen sunderland <
> > kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Great news!  Thanks for the efforts Roshani + Sheng.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 6:58 PM Roshani Nagmote <
> > roshaninagmo...@gmail.com
> > > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Release branch v1.3.x was cut yesterday night. Thanks, @Sheng for
> > helping
> > > > with this and merging a bunch of PRs. I will be running tests on the
> > > branch
> > > > and move forward with the release steps now. :)
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Roshani
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:12 AM Roshani Nagmote <
> > > > roshaninagmo...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Thanks Patric for reviewing the notes. Updated the doc with MKL-DNN
> > > > points
> > > > > you mentioned accordingly.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Roshani
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 8:03 PM Zhao, Patric <
> patric.z...@intel.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Hi Roshani,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Good notes :)
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Several items about the performance and MKL-DNN in the below,
> please
> > > > help
> > > > >> take a review.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> @Da, Alex, if anything about MKL-DNN is missed, feel free to add.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> *Performance improvement
> > > > >> +Support for dot(dns, csr) = dns and dot(dns, csr.T) = dns on CPU
> > > > >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/3
> > > > >> +Performance improvement for Batch Dot on CPU from mshadow
> > > > >> https://github.com/dmlc/mshadow/pull/342
> > > > >> -Fix the topk regression issue (#12197)
> > > > >> This is the bugfix rather than performance improvements
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> *MKL-DNN
> > > > >> More functionality supports:
> > > > >> +Support more activation functions, "sigmoid", "tanh", "softrelu"
> > > > >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/10336
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Debugging functionality:
> > > > >> +Result check
> > > > >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12069
> > > > >> +Backend switch
> > > > >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12058
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Thanks,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> --Patric
> > > > >>
> > > > >> > -Original Message-
> > > > >> > From: Roshani Nagmote [mailto:roshaninagmo...@gmail.com]
> > > > >> > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 1:53 AM
> > > > >> > To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org
> > > > >> > Subject: Re: Release plan - MXNET 1.3
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Hi,
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Thank you everyone for helping to clear release blockers. CI
> tests
> > > > were
> > > > >> failing
> > > > >> > so we delayed RC by some time. But now the tests are passing and
> > we
> > > > are
> > > > >> > ready to cut the release branch.
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > I have drafted release notes here:
> > > > >> >
> > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Apache+MXNet+%28in
> > > > >> > cubating%29+1.3.0+Release+Notes
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Please take a look and update if I have missed anything. I will
> be
> > > > >> cutting
> > > > >> > RC0 tomorrow.
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Thanks,
> > > > >> > Roshani
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:28 PM Roshani Nagmote
> > > > >> > 
> > > > >> > wrote:
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > > Sure will