How is the logger for MLFlow working without registering?

[dhirajsuvarna]

I have seen the code for logging to MLFlow in the github and I see there is no code to register.

But in the here in the doc its mentioned that we need to add this line - @spacy.registry.loggers("my_custom_logger.v1") to register the custom function.

Can someone explain how this works?

[polm]

The decorator is registering an "entry point" - it's an easy to understand and simple way to do that, but there are actually a couple of other ways you could do it. In official spaCy packages we sometimes specify entry points via setup.cfg instead, which is what we do for spacy-loggers. You can see the source here:

https://github.com/explosion/spacy-loggers/blob/main/setup.cfg

[dhirajsuvarna]

Currently spacy-logger loggging in mlflow doesn't support tracking server, however, mlflow is mostly used in a collaborative enviornment, it would be good, if we add the ability to provide tracking server uri from the config file.
I have done it for my project, can you let me know how can I contribute this to the main repository?

[polm]

That sounds like a reasonable feature, if you could submit a PR we'd be glad to take a look at it.