May 2019 Release Plan

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This is the endgame schedule for May 2019 Iteration.
last updated on 5/20/2019

Schedule (this may change)

• End game master: @xuehui1991
  May 28: Code freeze for the endgame
  June 4: Endgame done
  June 4: Expected release date

Tuesday 05/28

• Code freeze at 4pm UTC+8
• Release branch v0.8

Wed 05/29

• Build NNI test pypi package.
• Build NNI test docker image for v0.8 release bug bash.

Thu-NextMon 05/39-06/03

• Bug bash

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Bug Bash Items Breakdown
Web UX

• Fix bugs of table entries and hyper-parameter graph #1054 - Hui
• Improve the design of copying trial's parameters #1055 - Chengmin
• #PR 1113 - Zejun
• Website became very slowly when I run an experiment with many trials #1024 - Lijiao
  OS
• PAI TrainingService on Windows #1051 + remind users to install tuner if the tuner is not installed #1026 Sui Guoxin
• Remote TrainingService on Windows #1053 + remind users to install tuner if the tuner is not installed #1026 Wang Xupu
  Tuners and Assessors
• Nested search space refinement #1028 - test case/Hui
• Ability to replay a tuner #879 - Shinai
• [Improvement] Searchspace's type "randint" is better to support lower bound #902 - Yan
• remind users to install tuner if the tuner is not installed #1026, support SMAC for the feature data import #1042 - Zejun
• New Tuner: Design a general and efficient tuner for neural architecture search #870, Provide easy-to-use interface for neural architecture search #869 - Quanlu
  Training Service
• [feature request] Support Kubeflow TFJob/PyTorchJob v1beta2 #1033 - Chengmin
• Multiple trials on the same GPU #608 - Jiangong
  Bug Fixes
• nnimanager handle string type error #689, [bug] The error message is empty when failed to create kubeflow config. #1036 - Shinai
• bug of state transition in nnimanager #1011 - Zejun

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• New build for another round of test - ETA 6/3/2019
  "randint" WebUI issue found during bug bash #1144 [Improvement] Searchspace's type "randint" is better to support lower bound #902 re-organize links & Fix link err  #1125 Fix remote gpu scheduler bug #1143 delete loading in the table and rename intermediate result x and y name #1132

• V0.8 release notes

• Remind teams to verify issue status

Tuesday 06/04

• Rebuild NNI v0.8 pypi package
• Rebuild NNI v0.8 official docker image.
• Push NNI v0.8 official docker image to Dockerhub
• Announce NNI v0.8 release.