Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0

[Xingjian SHI]

-1 (binding). 

It breaks the YOLO training in GluonCV and the basic image classification in 
AutoGluon. There is an open PR that reverts the `weakref` fix: 
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/18692 and we need to see whether 
to revert that fix or find some other ways to solve the issue.

Given the current status, we should not release 1.7.0rc. Thus, I voted for -1.

Best,
Xingjian

On 7/10/20, 9:46 PM, "Aston Zhang"  wrote:

+1

Tested:

mxnet 1.7.0rc0-cu101 passed d2l-en v0.14.0

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:27 PM Qing Lan  wrote:

> My +1 (binding) on 1.7.0
>
> Tested:
>
>   *   Build from Source with static build instruction
>   *   Tested Scala pacakge and passed all tests
>
> Thanks,
> Qing
>
> 
> From: Tao Lv 
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 0:03
> To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org 
> Cc: d...@mxnet.apache.org ; Bob Paulin <
> b...@apache.org>; Henri Yandell ; Jason Dai <
> jason...@apache.org>; Markus Weimer ; Michael Wall <
> mjw...@apache.org>
> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
>
> +1 (binding)
>
> I did:
> - Verify the key and signature;
> - Untar the source code package;
> - Build from source code with makefile, USE_BLAS=mkl, USE_MKLDNN=1;
> - Check mx.__version__;
> - Run benchmark_score.py under examples/image-classification.
>
> -tao
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:18 PM Chen, Ciyong 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Community,
> >
> > I would like to call for action to test/validate/vote for the release
> > candidate (1.7.0.rc0)
> > As there's not any voting result during the scheduled time window, I
> would
> > like to extend the time windows to July 13, 23:59:59 PST.
> > Please prepare your time and provide feedback if you've tried with the
> > pre-release code bases, thanks!
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ciyong
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Chen, Ciyong 
> > Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:48 PM
> > To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
> > Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ;
> Jason
> > Dai ; Markus Weimer ; Michael
> > Wall 
> > Subject: RE: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
> >
> > For the language bindings and windows platform, may I have your support
> to
> > help verify these features? Thanks!
> >
> > @lanking520 to help verify the Scala/Java @gigasquid to help verify the
> > Clojure
> > @hetong007 to help verify the R
> > @yajiedesign to help verify the windows platform
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ciyong Chen
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Chen, Ciyong 
> > Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:39 PM
> > To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
> > Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ;
> Jason
> > Dai ; Markus Weimer ; Michael
> > Wall 
> > Subject: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
> >
> > Dear MXNet community,
> >
> > This is the vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.
> > Voting will start July 6, 23:59:59 PST and close on July 9, 23:59:59 
PST.
> >
> > Link to release notes:
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.7.0+Release+notes
> >
> > Link to release candidate:
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.7.0.rc0
> >
> > Link to source and signatures on apache dist server:
> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.7.0.rc0<
> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.7.0.rc0/>
> >
> > Please remember to TEST first before voting accordingly:
> > +1 = approve
> > +0 = no opinion
> > -1 = disapprove (provide reason)
> >
> > Additional notes:
> >
> >   *   There was an issue and discussion[1] regarding on a few numpy
> > operators failed due to numpy 1.19.0 released on Jun 20, 2020, which
> exists
> > in all branches (works with numpy <= 1.18.5). As numpy operator is still
> an
> > experimental feature in 1.7.0 release and mainly targeting in MXNet 2.0
> > release, so I decided to not block the voting and instead let the
> Community
> > decide whether this is a blocker for the release.
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/18600
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ciyong Chen
> >
> >
>

I would like to access MxNet Slack

[Leon Jian]

Hi Sir,

I would like to access MxNet Slack.
leon.j...@papagoinc.com 

Thank you.

-Leon

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0

[Aston Zhang]

+1

Tested:

mxnet 1.7.0rc0-cu101 passed d2l-en v0.14.0

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:27 PM Qing Lan  wrote:

> My +1 (binding) on 1.7.0
>
> Tested:
>
>   *   Build from Source with static build instruction
>   *   Tested Scala pacakge and passed all tests
>
> Thanks,
> Qing
>
> 
> From: Tao Lv 
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 0:03
> To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org 
> Cc: d...@mxnet.apache.org ; Bob Paulin <
> b...@apache.org>; Henri Yandell ; Jason Dai <
> jason...@apache.org>; Markus Weimer ; Michael Wall <
> mjw...@apache.org>
> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
>
> +1 (binding)
>
> I did:
> - Verify the key and signature;
> - Untar the source code package;
> - Build from source code with makefile, USE_BLAS=mkl, USE_MKLDNN=1;
> - Check mx.__version__;
> - Run benchmark_score.py under examples/image-classification.
>
> -tao
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:18 PM Chen, Ciyong 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Community,
> >
> > I would like to call for action to test/validate/vote for the release
> > candidate (1.7.0.rc0)
> > As there's not any voting result during the scheduled time window, I
> would
> > like to extend the time windows to July 13, 23:59:59 PST.
> > Please prepare your time and provide feedback if you've tried with the
> > pre-release code bases, thanks!
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ciyong
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Chen, Ciyong 
> > Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:48 PM
> > To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
> > Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ;
> Jason
> > Dai ; Markus Weimer ; Michael
> > Wall 
> > Subject: RE: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
> >
> > For the language bindings and windows platform, may I have your support
> to
> > help verify these features? Thanks!
> >
> > @lanking520 to help verify the Scala/Java @gigasquid to help verify the
> > Clojure
> > @hetong007 to help verify the R
> > @yajiedesign to help verify the windows platform
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ciyong Chen
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Chen, Ciyong 
> > Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:39 PM
> > To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
> > Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ;
> Jason
> > Dai ; Markus Weimer ; Michael
> > Wall 
> > Subject: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
> >
> > Dear MXNet community,
> >
> > This is the vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.
> > Voting will start July 6, 23:59:59 PST and close on July 9, 23:59:59 PST.
> >
> > Link to release notes:
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.7.0+Release+notes
> >
> > Link to release candidate:
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.7.0.rc0
> >
> > Link to source and signatures on apache dist server:
> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.7.0.rc0<
> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.7.0.rc0/>
> >
> > Please remember to TEST first before voting accordingly:
> > +1 = approve
> > +0 = no opinion
> > -1 = disapprove (provide reason)
> >
> > Additional notes:
> >
> >   *   There was an issue and discussion[1] regarding on a few numpy
> > operators failed due to numpy 1.19.0 released on Jun 20, 2020, which
> exists
> > in all branches (works with numpy <= 1.18.5). As numpy operator is still
> an
> > experimental feature in 1.7.0 release and mainly targeting in MXNet 2.0
> > release, so I decided to not block the voting and instead let the
> Community
> > decide whether this is a blocker for the release.
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/18600
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ciyong Chen
> >
> >
>

Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [RFC] MXNet website improvements (#17982)

[Chaitanya Prakash Bapat]

https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/18693
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- Missing copy button

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Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0

[Xingjian SHI]

Thanks Ziyi,

I've discovered the same issue when I'm trying to use AutoGluon with 1.7.0rc0 
and would like to share my finding:

Basically, I don't think Gluon Block is designed to be pickleble. But pickling 
do work for some cases in the old version:

I've included two cases in the gist 
(https://gist.github.com/sxjscience/944066c82e566f1b89b01fa226678890).

- Case1: we construct a gluon block, hybridize it and feed one NDArray to help 
initialize the block. After that, it will no longer be pickleble. 
- Case2: we just construct a gluon block and it will be pickleble in 1.6.0, but 
won't be pickleble in 1.7.0.

Thus, the real issue is: Should we supporting pickling a Gluon Block? If not, 
should we support combining multiprocessing.pool with the Gluon Block? For 
reference, PyTorch supports pickling the nn.Module as shown in: 
https://gist.github.com/sxjscience/90b812a66d445e759c55eedc3ef93668 and also in 
the doc (https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/saving_loading_models.html). 

Best,
Xingjian


On 7/10/20, 11:31 AM, "Patrick Mu"  wrote:

Hi Ciyong, 

I just discovered an issue with the 1.7, which causes the Yolo training 
with latest Gluon CV Yolo to fail.

The PR that causes the failure is 
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/18358, which modifies  basic 
blocks of Gluon to fix a memory leak issue.

Talked with Leonard, the author of the PR, and he said he found the root 
cause, but patching that PR would modifies those Gluon basic blocks further, 
which might be risky towards existing models and various customer models.

So my 2-cents is reverting this PR in 1.7, and try patching the PR in 1.x 
and 2.0, meaning that the 1.7 won't have memory usage optimized by that feature.

I'd like to hear what you think about this issue.

Thanks,
Ziyi


On 2020/07/10 06:18:02, "Chen, Ciyong"  wrote: 
> Hi Community,
> 
> I would like to call for action to test/validate/vote for the release 
candidate (1.7.0.rc0)
> As there's not any voting result during the scheduled time window, I 
would like to extend the time windows to July 13, 23:59:59 PST.
> Please prepare your time and provide feedback if you've tried with the 
pre-release code bases, thanks!
> 
> Best regards,
> Ciyong
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Chen, Ciyong  
> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:48 PM
> To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
> Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ; 
Jason Dai ; Markus Weimer ; Michael 
Wall 
> Subject: RE: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
> 
> For the language bindings and windows platform, may I have your support 
to help verify these features? Thanks!
> 
> @lanking520 to help verify the Scala/Java @gigasquid to help verify the 
Clojure
> @hetong007 to help verify the R
> @yajiedesign to help verify the windows platform
> 
> Best regards,
> Ciyong Chen
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Chen, Ciyong 
> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:39 PM
> To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
> Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ; 
Jason Dai ; Markus Weimer ; Michael 
Wall 
> Subject: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
> 
> Dear MXNet community,
> 
> This is the vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0. 
Voting will start July 6, 23:59:59 PST and close on July 9, 23:59:59 PST.
> 
> Link to release notes:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.7.0+Release+notes
> 
> Link to release candidate:
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.7.0.rc0
> 
> Link to source and signatures on apache dist server:
> 
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.7.0.rc0
> 
> Please remember to TEST first before voting accordingly:
> +1 = approve
> +0 = no opinion
> -1 = disapprove (provide reason)
> 
> Additional notes:
> 
>   *   There was an issue and discussion[1] regarding on a few numpy 
operators failed due to numpy 1.19.0 released on Jun 20, 2020, which exists in 
all branches (works with numpy <= 1.18.5). As numpy operator is still an 
experimental feature in 1.7.0 release and mainly targeting in MXNet 2.0 
release, so I decided to not block the voting and instead let the Community 
decide whether this is a blocker for the release.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/18600
> 
> Best regards,
> Ciyong Chen
> 
> 

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0

[Qing Lan]

My +1 (binding) on 1.7.0

Tested:

  *   Build from Source with static build instruction
  *   Tested Scala pacakge and passed all tests

Thanks,
Qing


From: Tao Lv 
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 0:03
To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org 
Cc: d...@mxnet.apache.org ; Bob Paulin 
; Henri Yandell ; Jason Dai 
; Markus Weimer ; Michael Wall 

Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0

+1 (binding)

I did:
- Verify the key and signature;
- Untar the source code package;
- Build from source code with makefile, USE_BLAS=mkl, USE_MKLDNN=1;
- Check mx.__version__;
- Run benchmark_score.py under examples/image-classification.

-tao

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:18 PM Chen, Ciyong  wrote:

> Hi Community,
>
> I would like to call for action to test/validate/vote for the release
> candidate (1.7.0.rc0)
> As there's not any voting result during the scheduled time window, I would
> like to extend the time windows to July 13, 23:59:59 PST.
> Please prepare your time and provide feedback if you've tried with the
> pre-release code bases, thanks!
>
> Best regards,
> Ciyong
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Chen, Ciyong 
> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:48 PM
> To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
> Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ; Jason
> Dai ; Markus Weimer ; Michael
> Wall 
> Subject: RE: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
>
> For the language bindings and windows platform, may I have your support to
> help verify these features? Thanks!
>
> @lanking520 to help verify the Scala/Java @gigasquid to help verify the
> Clojure
> @hetong007 to help verify the R
> @yajiedesign to help verify the windows platform
>
> Best regards,
> Ciyong Chen
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Chen, Ciyong 
> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:39 PM
> To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
> Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ; Jason
> Dai ; Markus Weimer ; Michael
> Wall 
> Subject: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
>
> Dear MXNet community,
>
> This is the vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.
> Voting will start July 6, 23:59:59 PST and close on July 9, 23:59:59 PST.
>
> Link to release notes:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.7.0+Release+notes
>
> Link to release candidate:
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.7.0.rc0
>
> Link to source and signatures on apache dist server:
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.7.0.rc0<
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.7.0.rc0/>
>
> Please remember to TEST first before voting accordingly:
> +1 = approve
> +0 = no opinion
> -1 = disapprove (provide reason)
>
> Additional notes:
>
>   *   There was an issue and discussion[1] regarding on a few numpy
> operators failed due to numpy 1.19.0 released on Jun 20, 2020, which exists
> in all branches (works with numpy <= 1.18.5). As numpy operator is still an
> experimental feature in 1.7.0 release and mainly targeting in MXNet 2.0
> release, so I decided to not block the voting and instead let the Community
> decide whether this is a blocker for the release.
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/18600
>
> Best regards,
> Ciyong Chen
>
>

Re: RE: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0

[Patrick Mu]

Hi Ciyong, 

I just discovered an issue with the 1.7, which causes the Yolo training with 
latest Gluon CV Yolo to fail.

The PR that causes the failure is 
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/18358, which modifies  basic 
blocks of Gluon to fix a memory leak issue.

Talked with Leonard, the author of the PR, and he said he found the root cause, 
but patching that PR would modifies those Gluon basic blocks further, which 
might be risky towards existing models and various customer models.

So my 2-cents is reverting this PR in 1.7, and try patching the PR in 1.x and 
2.0, meaning that the 1.7 won't have memory usage optimized by that feature.

I'd like to hear what you think about this issue.

Thanks,
Ziyi


On 2020/07/10 06:18:02, "Chen, Ciyong"  wrote: 
> Hi Community,
> 
> I would like to call for action to test/validate/vote for the release 
> candidate (1.7.0.rc0)
> As there's not any voting result during the scheduled time window, I would 
> like to extend the time windows to July 13, 23:59:59 PST.
> Please prepare your time and provide feedback if you've tried with the 
> pre-release code bases, thanks!
> 
> Best regards,
> Ciyong
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Chen, Ciyong  
> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:48 PM
> To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
> Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ; Jason 
> Dai ; Markus Weimer ; Michael Wall 
> 
> Subject: RE: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
> 
> For the language bindings and windows platform, may I have your support to 
> help verify these features? Thanks!
> 
> @lanking520 to help verify the Scala/Java @gigasquid to help verify the 
> Clojure
> @hetong007 to help verify the R
> @yajiedesign to help verify the windows platform
> 
> Best regards,
> Ciyong Chen
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Chen, Ciyong 
> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:39 PM
> To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
> Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ; Jason 
> Dai ; Markus Weimer ; Michael Wall 
> 
> Subject: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
> 
> Dear MXNet community,
> 
> This is the vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0. Voting 
> will start July 6, 23:59:59 PST and close on July 9, 23:59:59 PST.
> 
> Link to release notes:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.7.0+Release+notes
> 
> Link to release candidate:
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.7.0.rc0
> 
> Link to source and signatures on apache dist server:
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.7.0.rc0
> 
> Please remember to TEST first before voting accordingly:
> +1 = approve
> +0 = no opinion
> -1 = disapprove (provide reason)
> 
> Additional notes:
> 
>   *   There was an issue and discussion[1] regarding on a few numpy operators 
> failed due to numpy 1.19.0 released on Jun 20, 2020, which exists in all 
> branches (works with numpy <= 1.18.5). As numpy operator is still an 
> experimental feature in 1.7.0 release and mainly targeting in MXNet 2.0 
> release, so I decided to not block the voting and instead let the Community 
> decide whether this is a blocker for the release.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/18600
> 
> Best regards,
> Ciyong Chen
> 
> 

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0

[Tao Lv]

+1 (binding)

I did:
- Verify the key and signature;
- Untar the source code package;
- Build from source code with makefile, USE_BLAS=mkl, USE_MKLDNN=1;
- Check mx.__version__;
- Run benchmark_score.py under examples/image-classification.

-tao

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:18 PM Chen, Ciyong  wrote:

> Hi Community,
>
> I would like to call for action to test/validate/vote for the release
> candidate (1.7.0.rc0)
> As there's not any voting result during the scheduled time window, I would
> like to extend the time windows to July 13, 23:59:59 PST.
> Please prepare your time and provide feedback if you've tried with the
> pre-release code bases, thanks!
>
> Best regards,
> Ciyong
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Chen, Ciyong 
> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:48 PM
> To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
> Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ; Jason
> Dai ; Markus Weimer ; Michael
> Wall 
> Subject: RE: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
>
> For the language bindings and windows platform, may I have your support to
> help verify these features? Thanks!
>
> @lanking520 to help verify the Scala/Java @gigasquid to help verify the
> Clojure
> @hetong007 to help verify the R
> @yajiedesign to help verify the windows platform
>
> Best regards,
> Ciyong Chen
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Chen, Ciyong 
> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:39 PM
> To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
> Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ; Jason
> Dai ; Markus Weimer ; Michael
> Wall 
> Subject: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0
>
> Dear MXNet community,
>
> This is the vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.
> Voting will start July 6, 23:59:59 PST and close on July 9, 23:59:59 PST.
>
> Link to release notes:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.7.0+Release+notes
>
> Link to release candidate:
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.7.0.rc0
>
> Link to source and signatures on apache dist server:
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.7.0.rc0<
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.7.0.rc0/>
>
> Please remember to TEST first before voting accordingly:
> +1 = approve
> +0 = no opinion
> -1 = disapprove (provide reason)
>
> Additional notes:
>
>   *   There was an issue and discussion[1] regarding on a few numpy
> operators failed due to numpy 1.19.0 released on Jun 20, 2020, which exists
> in all branches (works with numpy <= 1.18.5). As numpy operator is still an
> experimental feature in 1.7.0 release and mainly targeting in MXNet 2.0
> release, so I decided to not block the voting and instead let the Community
> decide whether this is a blocker for the release.
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/18600
>
> Best regards,
> Ciyong Chen
>
>

RE: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0

[Chen, Ciyong]

Hi Community,

I would like to call for action to test/validate/vote for the release candidate 
(1.7.0.rc0)
As there's not any voting result during the scheduled time window, I would like 
to extend the time windows to July 13, 23:59:59 PST.
Please prepare your time and provide feedback if you've tried with the 
pre-release code bases, thanks!

Best regards,
Ciyong

-Original Message-
From: Chen, Ciyong  
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:48 PM
To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ; Jason Dai 
; Markus Weimer ; Michael Wall 

Subject: RE: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0

For the language bindings and windows platform, may I have your support to help 
verify these features? Thanks!

@lanking520 to help verify the Scala/Java @gigasquid to help verify the Clojure
@hetong007 to help verify the R
@yajiedesign to help verify the windows platform

Best regards,
Ciyong Chen

-Original Message-
From: Chen, Ciyong 
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 10:39 PM
To: d...@mxnet.apache.org
Cc: Bob Paulin ; Henri Yandell ; Jason Dai 
; Markus Weimer ; Michael Wall 

Subject: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0

Dear MXNet community,

This is the vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0. Voting 
will start July 6, 23:59:59 PST and close on July 9, 23:59:59 PST.

Link to release notes:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.7.0+Release+notes

Link to release candidate:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.7.0.rc0

Link to source and signatures on apache dist server:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.7.0.rc0

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

Additional notes:

  *   There was an issue and discussion[1] regarding on a few numpy operators 
failed due to numpy 1.19.0 released on Jun 20, 2020, which exists in all 
branches (works with numpy <= 1.18.5). As numpy operator is still an 
experimental feature in 1.7.0 release and mainly targeting in MXNet 2.0 
release, so I decided to not block the voting and instead let the Community 
decide whether this is a blocker for the release.

[1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/18600

Best regards,
Ciyong Chen