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

2020-07-12 Thread Chen, Ciyong
Thanks Macro for raising up the concern of license and Sheng for the 
clarification, the current release process is only targeting source release.

Regards,
-Ciyong

-Original Message-
From: Marco de Abreu  
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2020 4:51 AM
To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0

Okay, thanks for the clarification!

-Marco

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 5:58 PM Sheng Zha  wrote:

> Hi Marco,
>
> Since the license issues apply to binary distribution, we should still 
> be able to make official source releases.
>
> Regards,
> Sheng
>
> > On Jul 12, 2020, at 1:10 AM, Marco de Abreu 
> > 
> wrote:
> >
> > Are we in the position to make a release given that we have open 
> > license issues with the ipmc and Apache board? I want to avoid 
> > giving the impression that we are ignoring their requests - my 
> > current understanding is that we are non compliant.
> >
> > -Marco
> >
> >> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 9:46 AM Tong He  wrote:
> >>
> >> My +1 on the R binding.
> >>
> >> Tested with
> >>
> >> - Build from source
> >> - Install the R package and check it passed all tests.
> >>
> >>> On 2020/07/10 18:31:27, 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+n
>  otes
> 
>  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] 

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

2020-07-12 Thread Chen, Ciyong
Hi Ziyi, Xingjian,

Thanks for reporting the issues from GluonCV/AutoGluon perspective.
I just did a quick try by reverting the 
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/18358, then the behavior is same 
as 1.6.0 with the cases in the gist 
(https://gist.github.com/sxjscience/944066c82e566f1b89b01fa226678890).

Considering there's many end-users using Gluon based API/models, and 
introducing a new patch to fix this issue could be risky, so I agree that 
reverting this PR (#18358) might be the best option for the 1.7.0 release.
But I'm considering is there any other test cases to cover this feature, which 
could be helpful to track this kind of code changes in future, or can you help 
to verify if this revert do resolve the broken issue at your side?

> Thus, the real issue is: Should we supporting pickling a Gluon Block? If not, 
> should we support combining multiprocessing.pool with the Gluon Block?
Seems it's more like a new feature for MXNet Gluon Block, probably we can make 
it available in the next patch/minor release?

Thanks,
-Ciyong

-Original Message-
From: Xingjian SHI  
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 4:27 AM
To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org; d...@mxnet.apache.org
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.7.0.rc0

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 

Requesting slack access

2020-07-12 Thread Leandro Campos
Hi,

I'd like to request access to the Slack of MXNet.

Thanks,

Leandro Campos


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

2020-07-12 Thread Skalicky, Sam
+1

Tested:
- Make flow building from source: example/extensions all work correctly
- staticbuild flow cpu & cu102 variants with custom extension library

Sam

On 7/12/20, 1:52 PM, "Marco de Abreu"  wrote:

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Okay, thanks for the clarification!

-Marco

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 5:58 PM Sheng Zha  wrote:

> Hi Marco,
>
> Since the license issues apply to binary distribution, we should still be
> able to make official source releases.
>
> Regards,
> Sheng
>
> > On Jul 12, 2020, at 1:10 AM, Marco de Abreu 
> wrote:
> >
> > Are we in the position to make a release given that we have open license
> > issues with the ipmc and Apache board? I want to avoid giving the
> > impression that we are ignoring their requests - my current 
understanding
> > is that we are non compliant.
> >
> > -Marco
> >
> >> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 9:46 AM Tong He  wrote:
> >>
> >> My +1 on the R binding.
> >>
> >> Tested with
> >>
> >> - Build from source
> >> - Install the R package and check it passed all tests.
> >>
> >>> On 2020/07/10 18:31:27, 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<
> >> 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 

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

2020-07-12 Thread Marco de Abreu
Okay, thanks for the clarification!

-Marco

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 5:58 PM Sheng Zha  wrote:

> Hi Marco,
>
> Since the license issues apply to binary distribution, we should still be
> able to make official source releases.
>
> Regards,
> Sheng
>
> > On Jul 12, 2020, at 1:10 AM, Marco de Abreu 
> wrote:
> >
> > Are we in the position to make a release given that we have open license
> > issues with the ipmc and Apache board? I want to avoid giving the
> > impression that we are ignoring their requests - my current understanding
> > is that we are non compliant.
> >
> > -Marco
> >
> >> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 9:46 AM Tong He  wrote:
> >>
> >> My +1 on the R binding.
> >>
> >> Tested with
> >>
> >> - Build from source
> >> - Install the R package and check it passed all tests.
> >>
> >>> On 2020/07/10 18:31:27, 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<
> >> 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

2020-07-12 Thread Sheng Zha
Hi Marco,

Since the license issues apply to binary distribution, we should still be able 
to make official source releases.

Regards,
Sheng

> On Jul 12, 2020, at 1:10 AM, Marco de Abreu  wrote:
> 
> Are we in the position to make a release given that we have open license
> issues with the ipmc and Apache board? I want to avoid giving the
> impression that we are ignoring their requests - my current understanding
> is that we are non compliant.
> 
> -Marco
> 
>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 9:46 AM Tong He  wrote:
>> 
>> My +1 on the R binding.
>> 
>> Tested with
>> 
>> - Build from source
>> - Install the R package and check it passed all tests.
>> 
>>> On 2020/07/10 18:31:27, 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<
>> 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

2020-07-12 Thread Marco de Abreu
Are we in the position to make a release given that we have open license
issues with the ipmc and Apache board? I want to avoid giving the
impression that we are ignoring their requests - my current understanding
is that we are non compliant.

-Marco

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 9:46 AM Tong He  wrote:

> My +1 on the R binding.
>
> Tested with
>
> - Build from source
> - Install the R package and check it passed all tests.
>
> On 2020/07/10 18:31:27, 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<
> 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
> > >
> > >
> >
>