Etienne Wodey

This is linked to #1545 and references therein (in particular #1345).

I also find this very confusing. @hartytp @jordens Are there code bases that heavily rely on the `datasets`/`archive` split? If so, what's the use case? Merging the two sets would...

We use a flat hierarchy and update the python path per file. Something like: ```python import sys from pathlib import Path cwd = str(Path(__file__).parent) if cwd not in sys.path: sys.path.insert(0,...

Isn't it a feature that there's only one protocol for use everywhere serialization is needed? or can we reach a consensus that different serialization protocols answer different needs? I think...

> Does msgpack support all the data types we want? As @charlesbaynham mentioned, there's [msgpack_numpy](https://pypi.org/project/msgpack-numpy/). For the other types that are not supported out of the box (e.g. ``slice``, ``tuple``,...

@dnadlinger @jordens Is this a known issue? or a problem with our particular setup?

Thanks @Spaqin and @HarryMakes for the investigation! Sorry for the very, very delayed feedback. I got back into this because of issues observed on *standalone* systems with Urukul v1.5 and...

Thanks a lot @occheung for the feedback, the insight, and the much simpler and faster reproduction code! The diagnostic fits well with my observations but I'm unfortunately too unfamiliar with...

@occheung thanks for the hint! I'll test this, as well as #1802, in January.

@occheung looking at your suggestion more closely, I'm afraid it doesn't work functionally because attributes are not synchronized before the kernel stops (#1462). `self.states` is set in an RPC, and...