13:15 < vivekp> Hi, I'm new to mlpack. I've followed installation instructions and now just waiting for tests to complete.

13:15 < vivekp> actually, it's been almost one hour now since i entered bin/mlpack_test in the terminal and still waiting for it to finish

13:16 < vivekp> my system specs are 8 gigs of RAM, core i5 and running on Ubuntu 16.04... decent machine i guess? :)

13:17 < vivekp> i was wondering if its a normal behaviour and how long should i expect to wait?

13:17 < vivekp> also i'd like to know what test framework is used in mlpack?

13:24 < prasanna08> whois rcurtin

13:25 < prasanna08> sorry for the message.

13:26 < vivekp> prasanna08, rcurtin must be mlpack dev :)

13:27 < prasanna08> Hi vivekp, thanks.

13:35 < rcurtin> vivekp: yes, the test can take a long time---it is testing a lot of things

13:35 < rcurtin> if you compile without debugging symbols it should take about 30-45 minutes on that system (just guessing); with debugging symbols, probably a bit over an hour

13:39 < zoq> Probably makes sense to run "mlpack test -p" to see some progress.

13:39 < rcurtin> yep, definitely that can be helpful

13:42 < vivekp> rcurtin: compilation didn't take too long but testing is still going on. i will check back in 20-30 minutes

13:43 < vivekp> zoq: will keep that in mind next time i run tests. thanks

14:19 < vivekp> hi again; its still not finished... how can i tell it's not in some kind of loop all this time?

14:20 < vivekp> I'm starting to lose patience now :/

14:46 < prasanna08> Hi, I am new to mlpack. I want to implement CNN using mlpack. I was going through documentation but could not find any references to it. I checked and code for CNN is present there. Can someone help me ?

14:49 < prasanna08> Oh, I just noticed that documentation is for version 2.1.x and CNN code is not implemented in that version. I will try to figure it out myself. Thanks

15:04 < rcurtin> vivekp: it's possible something has hung up in a loop... try running with --report_level=detailed --log_level=test_suite

15:04 < rcurtin> and that should print the tests that are being run to stdout, so you can see if there is some test that it's hung inside of

16:00 < vivekp> rcurtin: Sorry, I had to abort that never ending loop

16:00 < npochhi> Hello, I'm new to MLPack and I have just cloned and built the code. As a beginner open-source ethusiast, I wanted to contribute. I tried looking for fixable bugs but I'm not getting the gist of the same.

16:01 < vivekp> Suspecting that cloning from git master and building it was not a good idea, I downloaded latest _stable_ release 2.1.1 and built that from scratch.

16:01 < vivekp> Everything seems normal now, including tests.

16:02 < vivekp> I think recent changes in test suite (not included in stable release) could be causing what I experienced.

16:03 < vivekp> We may be able confirm that if someone is willing to clone git master, build from scratch and try to run tests.

16:05 < vivekp> Anyhow, since everything looks good now I can finally write some programs to start using mlpack :)

16:06 < rcurtin> vivekp: the nightly matrix build doesn't have anything hanging

16:07 < rcurtin> npochhi: the github issues are tagged with a difficulty; maybe you can find something there. if not, you are welcome to find some support you think is lacking in mlpack and contribute that

16:07 < rcurtin> vivekp: here's the Jenkins build server nightly matrix job:

16:07 < rcurtin> http://masterblaster.mlpack.org/job/mlpack%20-%20nightly%20matrix%20build/

16:07 < rcurtin> you can see some of those builds are yellow, it means that there seems to be a test that's intermittently failing

16:08 < rcurtin> but it doesn't seem like one is hanging. maybe sometime soon that matrix build will manage to reproduce the problem you were having and then further debugging can be done...

16:12 < vivekp> yeah, it should reproduce itself sooner or later if it's a real issue

16:56 < vivekp> Are there any dummy datasets available for running various modules?

16:58 < vivekp> oh! just found some in tests/data

16:58 < rcurtin> you can also find lots of datasets on the UCI machine learning repository website

16:59 < vivekp> yes, right

17:51 < travis-ci> mlpack/mlpack#1754 (master - 50e14a7 : Marcus Edel): The build is still failing.

17:51 < travis-ci> Change view : https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/compare/816b75a1da42...50e14a73b4f9

17:51 < travis-ci> Build details : https://travis-ci.org/mlpack/mlpack/builds/195247646

21:58 < travis-ci> mlpack/mlpack#1755 (master - 5ba0f65 : Marcus Edel): The build was fixed.

21:58 < travis-ci> Change view : https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/compare/50e14a73b4f9...5ba0f65194a1

21:58 < travis-ci> Build details : https://travis-ci.org/mlpack/mlpack/builds/195332555