Board reports are due by Wednesday. If I don't get any feedback by then
I will submit this:
=== Apache Mahout Status Report: January 2012 ===
Apache Mahout provides implementations of machine learning algorithms
(collaborative filtering, clustering, classification, and more) for
large-scale data, mostly via Hadoop-based implementations.
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
Activity has been high during the past 3 months as we have begun
the release process for 0.6. Of 181 issues targeted for this release,
there are only 4 remaining.
Code freeze, originally targeted for Jan 1, is currently being delayed by a
platform-specific build issue and 1 open defect. We expect to release 0.6
in the near future.
A 1.0 release is not yet on the horizon.
COMMUNITY
There are no new committers since last report.
Dmitriy Lyubimov has been elected a member of the Mahout PMC.
MAHOUT DISTRIBUTIONS
Mahout has been included in the Cloudera CDH3u2 release.
(http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2011/11/cdh3u2-apache-mahout-integration/)
As with other commercial distributions we'll keep an eye out to
make sure it's distributed in accordance with Apache trademark
guidelines.
MAHOUT IN PRINT
"Mahout in Action", Owen, Anil, Dunning & Friedman has been published
and is
being well received.
(http://manning.com/owen/)
