GitLab

* Update VERSION.txt

* Update .appveyor.yml

* Update DESCRIPTION

* Update DESCRIPTION

* Update DESCRIPTION

* Update DESCRIPTION

* Fix index out-of-range exception generated by BaggingHelper on small datasets.

Prior to this change, the line "score_t threshold = tmp_gradients[top_k - 1];" would generate an exception, since tmp_gradients would be empty when the cnt input value to the function is zero.

* Update goss.hpp

* Update goss.hpp

* updated fix for macOS on Travis

* hotfix

* execute notebooks on CIs

* run notebooks in interactive mode and increase timeout for MinGW

* hotfix alphabetically sort packages installation

* renamed helper folder to helpers

* added library dependencies check

* made notebook example interactive

* cleanup

* Added License information in Readme.MD

* quick fix for better understanding

* update document for forced split

* typo fix

* made NOTE bold

* made Note bold

* adding plot example ipynb

* moving notebook to its own notebook folder

* rename notebook folder and ipynb to lowercase and snake case

* fixing importerror, version strings, file imports, printing-->plotting

* removing missed f-string modifier

* add option to disable openmp in python package build

* fix pylint

* add pandas_categorical to returned json

* save pandas_categorical to model file

* added regression test

* removed excess conversion to list

* removed deprecated line

* hotfix

* sort package installation

* speed up the build

* remove gpu docker

* add boost ppa

* remove duplicate installs

* Update test.sh

* conda install mkl qt

* addd windows

* Update .vsts-ci.yml

* fix gpu boost

* removed misleading note about best_iteration

* Update engine.py

* Update Python-Intro.rst

* Updated Engine.py

* Updated Python-Intro.rst

* add article 'the best', break huge line and remove excess empty line

* added docstring style test and fixed errors in existing docstrings

* hotfix

* hotfix

* fix grammar

* hotfix