James Lamb

Got it, ok thanks! Could we add a link to this PR in the list of feature requests (#2302) and close it for now? Since it's not actively being worked...

Closing this due to lack of response from @shiyu1994 's post in May 2022: https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/issues/4156#issuecomment-1120691622

I'm glad we originally opened this as a `good first issue` and that some contributors made their first PRs into the project working on it! But I'm going to take...

The last piece of this is @StrikerRUS 's proposal to also make some more of the class attributes for public classes private. Here's my proposal for which class attributes I...

I just took over this PR. We only have 10 more days to apply this change, before macOS jobs start failing on Azure DevOps. Given that, I'm proposing the following...

Thanks so much for doing this @StrikerRUS , especially for your expertise around how the XCode version relates to the way the wheels are tagged!

@shiyu1994 Github Actions now supports a GitHub-hosted Apple Silicon runner: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/8439 It isn't available for free though. Could you look into getting Microsoft to sponsor such a runner for this...

I have tried several approaches over the last 2 years to get support from Microsoft or GitHub for native M1/M2 macOS builds in this project... so far none of those...

> Is the issue purely financial? No. Even with budget and CI resources, this project is still facing a significant lack of people-hours doing work to move the project forward....

> You can try [FlyCI](https://www.flyci.net/)'s M1 and M2 runners @radeva thanks very much for your post. I saw a similar on on XGBoost as well (https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/9570#issuecomment-1898358871). At this time, I...