James Lamb

For now, I've locked the conversation on this issue so that only collaborators in the repo are able to comment, to keep the conversation focused on what maintainers are comfortable...

> I don't believe we'll able to release v4.0.0 in the near future with the current project activity level I also feel that it's probably far away given the current...

> How about we make two lists? My goal with this issue was to define the list of "what is required for v4.0.0", and I think that's enough. The implication...

Since the previous release, `{lightgbm}` is now depended on by several more packages. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lightgbm/index.html Including a fairly high-profile one, `{bonsai}`, with support from RStudio: https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2022/06/bonsai-0-1-0/. I'm planning to try to...

I've opened issues with offers of support for all of `{lightgbm}`'s reverse dependencies. * `{cbl}`: https://github.com/dswatson/cbl/issues/1 * `{bonsai}`: https://github.com/tidymodels/bonsai/issues/34 * `{cheem}`: https://github.com/nspyrison/cheem/issues/2 * `{EIX}`: https://github.com/ModelOriented/EIX/issues/7 * `{fastshap}`: https://github.com/bgreenwell/fastshap/issues/47 * `{SHAPforxgboost}`:...

Thanks for writing this up @shiyu1994 ! Can you add some more details here, to help others from the community who might want to help contribute to this? For example...would...

@pseudotensor thanks for your report. Are you able to reduce the reproducible example to something more minimal? For example: * could `optuna` be removed? * could this be re-written as...

> optuna and openml are quite standard packages Regardless of how "standard" those packages are, including them in the example significantly grows the scope of code that someone hoping to...

Apologies, I should have said "not willing to reduce **further**". I do sincerely appreciate you opening this report and the effort that has been put into it so far.

Thanks very very much for this! That helps a lot. I'll try to look more closely at this in the next couple days.