Request for feedback: proposal for MXNet SDK Office hours

2018-07-18 Thread Davydenko, Denis
Hello, MXNet community, Following up on recent announcement of office hours introduction from MXNet Berlin team, we are trying to see if we can introduce some modifications to that to make process a bit more streamlined and easier to track. Also, we are trying to see how to scale that process

Re: Request for feedback: proposal for MXNet SDK Office hours

2018-07-23 Thread Davydenko, Denis
Hi, Hen, Thanks a lot for your feedback, it is very valuable! I should have been probably more explicit about idea and intention of providing users with office hours channel of communication. The idea behind office hours is to provide an additional communication channel to Apache MXNet users. I

Re: Request for feedback: proposal for MXNet SDK Office hours

2018-07-24 Thread Davydenko, Denis
Hi, MXNet community, I would like to suggest that we (participants of dev@ list) spend couple more days thinking about and discussing proposal for office hours and then, if no active discussion is happening, move towards lazy vote to get to conclusion on whether we can incorporate suggested pra

Proposal: Apache MXNet user group meetings

2018-08-22 Thread Davydenko, Denis
Hello, Apache MXNet community, I would like to submit for your consideration updated and improved suggestion for Apache MXNet User Groups meetings: [1]. Main goals of this initiative are: - make it easy: users and developers should be able to understand what is Group Meeting and how to parti

Re: Feedback request for new Java API

2018-09-28 Thread Davydenko, Denis
+1 on option #2. Having clear Java interface for NDArray, from my perspective, would be a better experience for Java users as it won't require them to deal with Scala code in any capacity. Overhead of extra code for additional macros is justified, in my mind, as it will be introduced with option

Create a Jira board for C/C++ API project

2018-10-05 Thread Davydenko, Denis
Hello, MXNet community, As part of mine and couple of my team mates day job we are working on contributing towards C++ and C APIs that MXNet exposes. We would like to propose to create a separate board in jira in order to make it easier to track work around MXNet C/C++ APIs. Very similar to

Call for participation: evaluate Java API

2018-10-12 Thread Davydenko, Denis
Not so long ago there was a design shared for MXNet Java API: [1] In a couple of days we are going to have initial version of its implementation. We are looking for users who would like to get this initial version and evaluate how well it suits their use cases or just play around with it and pr

Re: Call for participation: evaluate Java API

2018-10-16 Thread Davydenko, Denis
play around we use the java api branch? is there a link to some example > code? > > Thanks. > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 9:16 PM Davydenko, Denis < > dzianis.davydze...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Not so long ago there was a design share

Re: [Announce] Upcoming Apache MXNet (incubating) 1.4.0 release

2018-11-29 Thread Davydenko, Denis
I suggest to include this issue into tracked ones for the release: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/12255. It has proven to be a problem with MXNet start up time and it will cause even more problems down the line with Elastic Training, EIA where MXNet is a commodity rather than

Re: [DISCUSS] About the usage of CUDA/CUDNN

2018-12-17 Thread Davydenko, Denis
Kellen, please see conversation [1] on previously published proposal re: maven publishing pipeline. I think your concerns are valid and we should look into security aspect of running our CI on a broader scope, not bound to just artifact publishing. I believe right now Qing's question is whether

Re: [DISCUSS] Rebrand Gluon to MXNet imperative or something MXNet.

2019-03-22 Thread Davydenko, Denis
I support idea of putting brands of MXNet and Gluon closer together. I agree with your argument, Mu, but MXNet is quite far away from TF place at this time so I don’t know how well that argument is transferable from TF position to MXNet position. MXNet Imperative is definitely too restrictive o

Re: [DISCUSS] Rebrand Gluon to MXNet imperative or something MXNet.

2019-03-22 Thread Davydenko, Denis
on to align it with MXNet without changing its name. On 3/22/19, 4:57 PM, "Mu Li" wrote: Are you proposing to rename Gluon? I think Pedro's opinion is about a better way to communicate what's Gluon and how it's related to MXNet. On Fri, Mar 22, 20

Re: [DISCUSS] Rebrand Gluon to MXNet imperative or something MXNet.

2019-03-22 Thread Davydenko, Denis
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 5:07 PM Davydenko, Denis < dzianis.davydze...@gmail.com> wrote: > As subject suggests this is a proposal for re-branding of Gluon to align > it with MXNet. One of the common things undertaken for re-branding > exercises is renaming.

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.5.0.rc1

2019-06-28 Thread Davydenko, Denis
According to Sandeep's evaluation of perf regression on operator level [1] we have 77 op/input combinations for forward pass and 50 for backward pass where regression is 5%+ (biggest regressions observed are about 86% and 84% respectively) out of 290 tests. If I raise threshold of degradation to

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.5.0.rc1

2019-06-28 Thread Davydenko, Denis
t is to keep up with the existing users and their trust. If a new release performs worse for the same kind of workload, they might lose trust into our release process and in future might be less willing to adopt a new release early-on. -Marco Davydenko, Denis schr

Re: [RESULTS] [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.5.0.rc2

2019-07-15 Thread Davydenko, Denis
Hi, Michael, Could you please update whether you had a chance to very MXNet v1.5.0rc2? On 7/10/19, 10:57 AM, "Michael Wall" wrote: Will make time to review before Sun. Thanks for the note. Mike On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 1:52 PM Lai Wei wrote: > Dear MXNet mento

Re: [RESULTS] [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.6.0.rc1

2020-01-16 Thread Davydenko, Denis
If possible it would be good to maintain Release Status page [1] so that anybody who is planning activities around 1.6 release could refer to it and find proper and actual dates on it. [1]: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.6.0+Release+Plan+and+Status -- Thanks, Denis On 1/

Update on upcoming changes to the MXNet CI: Jenkins

2020-02-12 Thread Davydenko, Denis
Hello, MXNet dev community, As you all know, the experience with CI infrastructure isn’t ideal in spite of its high cost. For this reason, we’re proposing the following changes to improve stability, reduce cost, and grant more control to contributors. As we work in a refresh of CI, we believe th

Re: Update on upcoming changes to the MXNet CI: Jenkins

2020-02-12 Thread Davydenko, Denis
(to catch stuff like lint errors etc.) before launching the full thing? Thanks Przemek On 2020/02/12 18:12:07, "Davydenko, Denis" wrote: > Hello, MXNet dev community, > As you all know, the experience with CI infrastructure isn’t ideal in spite

Re: Update on upcoming changes to the MXNet CI: Jenkins

2020-02-12 Thread Davydenko, Denis
e where all pipelines have succeeded. On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 10:12 -0800, Davydenko, Denis wrote: > Hello, MXNet dev community, > As you all know, the experience with CI infrastructure isn’t ideal in spite of > its high cost. For this reason, we’re proposing the followi

Re: Update on upcoming changes to the MXNet CI: Jenkins

2020-02-13 Thread Davydenko, Denis
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:12 AM Davydenko, Denis wrote: > > Hello, MXNet dev community, > As you all know, the experience with CI infrastructure isn’t ideal in spite of its high cost. For this reason, we’re proposing the following changes to improve