James Lamb

Since I pushed some commits here, my approval probably shouldn't be enough for a merge. @borchero could you look again whenever you have time?

I've updated this to latest `master`. I feel confident merging it based on @guolinke 's approval and @barracuda156 's verbal approval. I'll merge this once CI succeeds. @borchero if you...

> @jameslamb WDYT about using [PSScriptAnalyzer](https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer) for our PowerShell scripts? I'm willing to try it! I'm concerned that it'll be difficult to install, but maybe that's just because I don't...

Thanks for that! @StrikerRUS I'd support a PR that introduces this, if you'd like to try one. I hope we can add it to the existing linting job https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/blob/bbeecc09af946c5ff9b84d1ada4749a9f26bca31/.ci/test.sh#L101 that...

> `[trigger ci]` Every CI run on this PR will require a maintainer manually approving it, because you've never contributed here before. Sorry for the inconvenience, but GitHub introduced this...

Thanks for using LightGBM. We need more details than this to help you. * what operating system? * version of Python? * can you provide a **minimal, reproducible example** that...

Thanks for that. I personally would be -1 on the idea of LightGBM supporting storage of arbitrary extra data in model files. That'd add complexity and maintenance burden to this...

Thanks for using LightGBM. Windows 7 reached end-of-life several years ago: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-7-support-ended-on-january-14-2020-b75d4580-2cc7-895a-2c9c-1466d9a53962 LightGBM does not support it. If you can provide details like the specific commands you used to install...

You can try an older version like v3.3.5 but it will be difficult for us to help much if you don't share the commands you're using, reason you need to...

Thanks for using LightGBM and for your work repackaging it for FreeBSD. To run the C++ tests for this project, run the following from the root of the repo: ```shell...