[apache/incubator-mxnet] [Development] v2.0.0 beta 0 release (#19139)

[Sheng Zha <no...@github.com>]

Hi MXNet community,

This discussion is about the MXNet 2.0's first beta release. This beta release is expected to be the first of the several beta releases before the official release of 2.0. In general, for each release follows a fixed cadence of a monthly update without stopping for minor issues.

In the first beta release, we include all the features listed in #18931 for the Python binding. Here are a few known blocking items to be addressed before the first beta release happens:
- [ ] Gluon 2.0 crash course update
- [ ] Gluon 2.0 implementation updates #19138
- [ ] Website 2.0 updates and document fixes #19137
- [ ] Open [license](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/labels/Licenses) issues and removal of DISCLAIMER-WIP.

If you know of other issues such as critical bugs, please add here and I will track them. The release timeline will simply be upon the completion of these items.

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [Development] v2.0.0 beta 0 release (#19139)

[Troy Liu <no...@github.com.INVALID>]

@fallahmad I do think there is an eta... 😢 

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [Development] v2.0.0 beta 0 release (#19139)

[Leonard Lausen <no...@github.com.INVALID>]

@fallahmad you can use the master branch. We intend to vote on an alpha release soon.

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [Development] v2.0.0 beta 0 release (#19139)

[Ahmad Fall <no...@github.com.INVALID>]

Hi MXNet community,

Any timeline update for MXNet 2.0.0 ? Is the master branch stable ? Can we use it to test new features ?

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [Development] v2.0.0 beta 0 release (#19139)

[Ahmad Fall <no...@github.com.INVALID>]

@troyliu0105 @leezu Thank you guys

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [Development] v2.0.0 beta 0 release (#19139)

[Sheng Zha <sz...@gmail.com>]

Hi Justin,

It is not required for the project in the sense that GPU support itself is an optional feature in MXNet, and the build with CPU-only feature is still a fully functional feature.

In any case, we intend to refactor it so that the nvrtc module is optional at import time before making a beta release.

Thanks,
Sheng



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> On Sep 19, 2020, at 5:54 AM, Justin Mclean <jm...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If it is now a required dependancy then the issue is that a release cannot have a required dependancy on Category X Software.
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin

Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [Development] v2.0.0 beta 0 release (#19139)

[Justin Mclean <jm...@apache.org>]

Hi,

If it is now a required dependancy then the issue is that a release cannot have a required dependancy on Category X Software.

Thanks,
Justin

Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [Development] v2.0.0 beta 0 release (#19139)

[Sheng Zha <sz...@gmail.com>]

Hi Justin,

I believe nvrtc shares the same license as the rest of the CUDA toolkits. It is only required when GPU feature is turned on and is not needed for CPU-only builds.

Thanks,
Sheng


> On Sep 19, 2020, at 4:35 AM, Justin Mclean <jm...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What license is nvrtc under? If it's now a required dependency and its not compatible with the Apache license then that is going to be an issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin

Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [Development] v2.0.0 beta 0 release (#19139)

[Justin Mclean <jm...@apache.org>]

Hi,

What license is nvrtc under? If it's now a required dependency and its not compatible with the Apache license then that is going to be an issue.

Thanks,
Justin

Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [Development] v2.0.0 beta 0 release (#19139)

[Leonard Lausen <no...@github.com.INVALID>]

Another item may be the issue of test coverage. For example, https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/19082 reports that multi-threaded inference test-cases are missing due to refactor, but the feature is still included in MXNet and should be tested before release.

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [Development] v2.0.0 beta 0 release (#19139)

[Leonard Lausen <no...@github.com.INVALID>]

For the release, it would be useful to review the disabled tests https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/search?q=mark.skip

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Re: [apache/incubator-mxnet] [Development] v2.0.0 beta 0 release (#19139)

[Leonard Lausen <no...@github.com.INVALID>]

In MXNet 1.x supports building a single libmxnet.so and use it on both CPU or GPU machines. This is not possible in MXNet 2 due to making nvrtc a required dependency and https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/17858 This can be a blocking issue for users moving from MXNet 1 to MXNet 2.

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