Releases_TODO

Releases

This document contains TODO lists for the next release.

4.1

###Purpose:

• Mostly contains Wu's new inference algorithms
• Otherwise clean-up (drop migration, bug fixes)
• Get back to speed.
• Needed for pre GSoC 2016

###TODO:

• Make sure tests are green
  • we have a few serialization issues (http://buildbot.shogun-toolbox.org/builders/FC22%20-%20libshogun/builds/72/steps/test/logs/stdio) (Heiko)
  • Fix typemaps for csharp (Viktor), link
• Make sure there are no fixable documentation warnings (Sergey, Wu)
• Integrate new cookbook into main branch (not sure yet) (Sergey)
• Add new algorithms to NEWS (Heiko)
• Add clean-up patches to NEWS (Heiko)
• Put new website online? (Kevin)
• Announce move to stack overflow for questions (Heiko)
• Write Release text (Heiko)

Release text draft:

Dear all,

we are pleased to announce the 4.1 release of the Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox.

This release features the work of the new Shogun-team member Wu Lin, who put a lot of work into Shogun's framework for large-scale variational inference for Gaussian Processes. A (very large) notebook explaining a lot of the methods can be found at http://www.shogun-toolbox.org/static/notebook/current/variational_classifier.html

The release also features a computer-science feature by Esben Sörig, who designed a meta-language to write Shogun examples in, which are then automatically translated to all of Shogun's interface languages. Documentation can be found at https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/wiki/Example_Generation

We also worked towards a smoother build process and did a number of internal efficiency improvements and clean-ups.

A full list and the download can be found at RELEASE TAG HERE, i.e. https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun/releases/tag/shogun_4.0.0

On other news:

• We plan to start using Stack Overflow to reply to Shogun questions, rather than the mailing list. This will create a more documented set of Q&A. Github issues are used as before to report/solve problems. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/shogun

• The Shogun foundation was recognised as a non-profit organisation by German tax law. This is an important step towards more sustainabl finances of the project.

Heiko Strathmann, on behalf of the Shogun team

About Shogun: http://www.shogun-toolbox.org

Source code: https://github.com/shogun-toolbox