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Posted to dev@singa.apache.org by Wang Wei <wa...@apache.org> on 2021/06/08 14:42:33 UTC

[Draft] Board Report June

Dear all,

Here is the draft for the June board report.
Comments are welcomed.

Regards,
Wei

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## Description:
The mission of Apache SINGA is the creation and maintenance of software
related
to a distributed deep learning platform

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.


## Membership Data:
Apache SINGA was founded 2019-10-16 (2 years ago)
There are currently 22 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Chris Yeung on 2020-04-17.
- No new committers. Last addition was Zhang Zhaoqi on 2020-07-01.


## Project Activity:
In the past quarter, the community is fixing some bugs and issues of V3.1,
as
well as working on release v3.2, which continues enhancing the distributed
training with the following features/changes:

* Unifying the formats of docstrings that describe the contents and usage of
  each module
* Unifying the parameters of command-line arguments
* Improving the data augmentation module for faster distributed training
* Improving the data loading function for distributed training
* Supporting half-precision floating-point format (fp16) in deep learning
  models and computational kernels
* Adding more SINGA onnx models to cover a wider spectrum of practical
  applications


## Community Health:
Commit activity: 38 commits in the past quarter (22% increase) 10 code
contributors in the past quarter (233% increase)

GitHub issues: 6 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (50% increase) 6
issues
closed on GitHub, past quarter (no change)

There are more activities compared to last quarter. The community is working
towards v3.2.