Cmdstan doesn't report random seed

Developers
1

I just realized starting v2.20.0 cmdstan doesn’t log random seed when it’s default. That is, the output
of

./bernoulli sample data file=bernoulli.data.R

gives

random
  seed = -1 (Default)

instead of the exact seed generated using system clock. IMO it’s a step back in reproducibility.

Is this a feature or bug?

2

Best guess is that started after https://github.com/stan-dev/cmdstan/pull/695

I am assuming this wasnt the intent, but havent gone through all the details of the PR. Mind filing a Cmdstan issue and we can resort this and it doesnt get burried in other Discourse posts? Thanks!

3

Done.

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