Oh dear! I sent this too soon. Again. Jake needs formal Board approval
before he can actually assume this role. I doubt there will be any
difficulty but please accept my apologies for being out of process.
Jeff
On 10/7/12 6:01 AM, Jeff Eastman wrote:
I meant to add: Congratulations Jake and Paritosh!
Jeff
On 10/7/12 5:50 AM, Jeff Eastman wrote:
Here is the draft of our October Board report that is due by the
10th. In it, you will please note that Jake Mannix has been elected
to become the next PMC Chairperson and Paritosh Ranjan has been
elected to the PMC.
DRAFT === Apache Mahout Status Report: October 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 remained high during the past 3 months.
The [email protected] mailing list has 1448 current subscribers.
The [email protected] mailing list has 734 current subscribers.
Now we are embarked upon a new 0.8 release. A goal of 0.8
is to continue clean up of existing functionality to improve
consistency and improve user experience. In this release, some
new additions to Mahout functionality are also planned.
Code freeze for 0.8 is targeted for Nov 15.
A 1.0 release is not yet on the horizon.
COMMUNITY
Jake Mannix has been elected to be the new Mahout PMC Chair.
Paritosh Ranjan has been elected to the Mahout PMC.
We have no new committers since our July report
