Re: Propose to discontinue supporting Apache MXNet on Windows 7

2018-09-01 Thread kellen sunderland
Google analytics are sadly probably the best numbers we're going to get. Of course these numbers are likely to over-represent windows usage, as I'm sure many people are looking up documentation on a windows machine while ssh'd into a cloud instance or IoT device. What's the trend over time for

Re: Propose to discontinue supporting Apache MXNet on Windows 7

2018-09-01 Thread Mu Li
According to google analytics, ~12% users who visited mxnet's website are using Windows 7. It's a significant number. Even though we cannot conclude that all of these users will run MXNet on Windows 7, I suggest we still support win7. BTW, anyone who can access mxnet's google analytics report can

Re: [VOTE] Release MXNet version 1.3.0.RC0

2018-09-01 Thread Joshua Z. Zhang
-1. Please include all 3rd party dependencies, GitHub won’t automatically do that. BTW, Per user request in forum, I found this PR(https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12118 ) is not included in 1.3 rc0, I recommend to

Re: [VOTE] Release MXNet version 1.3.0.RC0

2018-09-01 Thread Steffen Rochel
-1 https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/archive/1.3.0.rc0.zip and https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/archive/1.3.0.rc0.tar.gz do not contain 3rdparty packages, resulting in make failure: tar zxf incubator-mxnet-1.3.0.rc0.tar.gz cd incubator-mxnet-1.3.0.rc0/ make USE_OPENCV=1

Re: Propose to discontinue supporting Apache MXNet on Windows 7

2018-09-01 Thread Steffen Rochel
I support a data driven decision. Any suggestions how we can obtain insight about OS usage of the MXNet user community? Can we get such information from pip install statistics or should we perform a user poll on the discussion forum? On the other hand the lack of data should not prevent us from

Re: [VOTE] Release MXNet version 1.3.0.RC0

2018-09-01 Thread Pigeon Lucky
+1 On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, 10:59 Roshani Nagmote, wrote: > 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: >