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* ranker support wip

* fix ranker tests

* fix _make_ranking rnd gen bug, add sleep to help w stoch binding port failed exceptions

* add wait_for_workers to prevent Binding port exception

* another attempt to stabilize test_dask.py

* requested changes: docstrings, dask_ml, tuples for list_of_parts

* fix lint bug, add group param to test_ranker_local_predict

* decorator to skip tests with errors on fixture teardown

* remove gpu ranker tests, reduce make_ranking data complexity

* another attempt to
silence client, decorator does not silence fixture errors

* address requested changes on 1/20/20

* skip test_dask for all GPU tasks

* address changes requested on 1/21/21

* issubclass instead of __qualname__
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* parity in group docstr with sklearn
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* _make_ranking docstr cleanup
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[dask] allow parameter aliases for local_listen_port, num_threads, tree_learner (fixes #3671) (#3789)

* [dask] allow parameter aliases for tree_learner and local_listen_port (fixes #3671)

* num_thread too

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* empty commit
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* starting work

* fixed port-binding issue on localhost

* minor cleanup

* updates

* getting closer

* definitely working for LocalCluster

* it works, it works

* docs

* add tests

* removing testing-only files

* linting

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* remove duplicated code

* remove unnecessary listen()
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* migrated implementation from dask/dask-lightgbm

* relaxed tests

* tests skipped in case that MPI is used

* fixed python 2.7 import + tests disabled on windows

* python < 3.6 is not supported in tests

* tests enabled only for linux

* tests disabled for mpi interface

* dask version pinned to >= 2.0

* added @jameslamb as code owner

* added missing pandas dependency

* code refactoring, removed code duplication - lightgbm.dask.LGBMClassifier.fit is the same as lightgbm.dask.LGBMRegressor.fit

* fixed refactoring

* code deduplication - fit method moved into mixin class

* fixed CODEOWNERS

* removed unnecessary import

* skip the module execution on python < 3.6 and on platform different than linux.

* removed skip for python < 3.6

* review comments

* removed noqa, renamed API classes, renamed local variables