Yes, I'm working on it now. On Jan 5, 2014, at 5:41 PM, Isabel Drost-Fromm <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note - this must go out by Wednesday next week. Please make any changes > or additions you see needed until then. > > Grant, do you have the cycles to submit the final version? > > > > On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:41:19 +0100 > 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 >> -------------------------------------------- Grant Ingersoll | @gsingers http://www.lucidworks.com
