June 2019 Release Endgame Plan

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This is the endgame schedule for June 2019 Iteration.
last updated on 6/26/2019

Schedule (this may change)

• End game master: @leckie-chn
  June 24 26: Code freeze for the endgame
  July 1st: Endgame done
  July 1st: Expected release date

refer to may endgame: #1089

06/26

• Code freeze at 4pm UTC+8
• (pending) Integration Test
• Release branch v0.9
• Build NNI test pypi package.
• Build NNI test docker image for v0.9 release bug bash.

06/26 -07/01 Bug bash

Tuners and Assessors

• Tuner Installation Improvements Tuner Installation Improvements #858 owner: @SparkSnail /tester: @Crysple
• Oneshot example (ENAS, etc.) Oneshot example (ENAS, etc.) #1159 owner: @Crysple /tester: @suiguoxin
• Add GP Tuner and related doc Add GP Tuner and related doc #1191 owner: @suiguoxin /tester: @Crysple

Training Service

• Multiphase support: owner: @chicm-ms /tester:@SparkSnail
  • multiphase support PAI mode
  • multiphase refactoring Multiphase refactor and support OpenPAI training service. #1138

Web Portal & User Experience

• trial compare trial compare #1062 owner: @lvybriage /tester: @chicm-ms
• Enhancement: ability to adjust rendering interval. Enhancement: ability to adjust rendering interval. #1106 owner: @lvybriage /tester: @yangou1988 /@suiguoxin
• Command to Delete Experiments. (risk on azure storage) Provide command to delete experiments, so that user can save storage space. #1123 owner: @SparkSnail /tester: @squirrelsc
• show intermediate results more friendly show intermediate results more friendly #536 owner: @lvybriage /tester: @QuanluZhang

Bug Fixes

• Failed to connect to PAI http code:500 Failed to connect to PAI http code:500 #1076 @demianzhang /tester: xupu
• Validate file name in PAI platform Validate file name for PAI platform #1164 @SparkSnail /tester: xupu
• Trial's end time is less than start time in auto gbdt example Trial's end time is less than start time in auto gbdt example #1182; fix negative time number in local mode when trial time is short fix negative time number in local mode when trial time is short #1185; owner: xupu/tester: jiangong.
• hyper-parameter not shown correctly in WebUI when there is only one hyper parameter hyper-parameter not shown correctly in WebUI when there is only one hyper parameter #1192 @lijiao // PR Show default metric in hyper-parameter #1200 xuehui/chengmin; tester: @suiguoxin

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• V0.9 release notes
• Remind teams to verify issue status

Monday July 1st

• Rebuild NNI v0.9 pypi package
• Rebuild NNI v0.9 official docker image.
• Push NNI v0.9 official docker image to Dockerhub
• Announce NNI v0.9 release.