[VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.6.0.rc2

[Przemysław Trędak]

Dear MXNet community,

This is the vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.6.0. Voting 
starts today and will close on Monday 2/3/2020 23:59 PST.

Link to release notes:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.6.0+Release+notes

Link to release candidate:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.6.0.rc2

Link to source and signatures on apache dist server:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.6.0.rc2/

The differences comparing to previous release candidate 1.6.0.rc1:
 * Fixes for license issues (#17361, #17375, #17370, #17460)
 * Bugfix for saving LSTM layer parameter (#17288)
 * Bugfix for downloading the model from model zoo from multiple processes 
(#17372)
 * Fixed a symbol.py in AMP for GluonNLP (#17408)


Please remember to TEST first before voting accordingly:
+1 = approve
+0 = no opinion
-1 = disapprove (provide reason)


Best regards,
Przemyslaw Tredak

[NOTIFICATION] CI Upgrade

[Anirudh Subramanian]

Hi,

I had to upgrade the CI to obtain some important security fixes :
https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2020-01-29/ . You may have to
retrigger some of your in progress PRs. Apologies for the inconvenience
caused.

Anirudh

List of Adopters of MPI Operator

[Yuan Tang]

Hi Apache MXNet community,

We've just added an initial list of adopters of Kubeflow's MPI Operator
here: https://github.com/kubeflow/mpi-operator/blob/master/ADOPTERS.md

I know some of you might be using Horovod + Apache MXNet via MPI Operator
(check out the examples here
) so if your
company would like to be included, please let send us a pull request!

Also feel free to retweet this to help spread the word:
https://twitter.com/TerryTangYuan/status/1222975254420652032:

Best,
Yuan