Do we want to add a few lines about the 0.9 release (from the release notes draft that went out before holidays)?
Otherwise +1 On Friday, December 27, 2013 7:42 AM, Isabel Drost-Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, just as a reminder - in January Mahout is due to report to the board. Please find the template below - any help in filling in the details welcome. ---------------------------8<----------------------------------- Status report for the Apache Mahout project - January 2014 Apache Mahout has implementations of a wide range of machine learning and data mining algorithms: clustering, classification, collaborative filtering. Project Status -------------- > A sentence or two describing the current status of the project. Most > importantly, highlight any issues that require board attention. This > is the projects opportunity to ask for assistance from the board > should there be any sticky issues that need addressing. Community --------- * On November 28th Frank Scholten was voted in as new committer. * No changes to the PMC in the reporting period. * With Suneel Marthi now working full time on the project there has been a flurry of patches reviewed and committed. * The project has moved to Apache CMS, is in the process of tidying most of the wiki based documentation. * After a small Hackathon in Berlin pre-Christmas activity has been steady even during the holiday season. Community Objectives -------------------- With most committers not working on Mahout full time there is always a lack of time on lists as well as when it comes to dealing with patches submitted quickly. The current goal is to grow the committer base to deal with that issue. As for students that would like to contribute the problem remains that the most interesting work seems to be adding new algorithms and implementations. It remains a challenge to motivate those interested in contributing to work on getting existing implementations stable, improving documentation and reviewing incoming patches. Releases -------- The community is actively working on getting the 0.9 release out the door with just one scaling issue remaining the the k-means++ code newly added as part of the 0.8 release (June 2013). This is supposed to be the last release before 1.0. --------------------------->8----------------------------------- Any input from your side welcome! Isabel
