Thanks Sebastian to you and others for effort in cleaning up the website interface. It looks much better (fonts & layout) and much more usable if I may say.
I will be happy to volunteer for the pages under classification in whatever ways I can. I would want to contribute specially on verifying that the examples provided work in the form they exist on the website and will be happy to do any corrections wherever possible. If there is initial backlog list which provides tasks at a granular level then it will be great OR I can start looking on the page myself. Manoj On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > As you've probably noticed, I've put in a lot of effort over the last days > to kickstart cleaning up our website. I've thrown out a lot of stuff and > have been startled by the amout of outdated and incorrect information on > our website, as well as links pointing to nowhere. > > I think our lack of documentation makes it superhard to use Mahout for new > people. A crucial next step is to clean up the documentation on > classification and clustering. I cannot do this alone, because I don't have > the time and I'm not so familiar with the background of the algorithms. > > I need volunteers to go through all the pages under "Classification" and > "Clustering" on the website. For the algorithms, the content and claims of > the articles need to be checked, for the examples we need to make sure that > everything still works as described. It would also be great to move > articles from personal blogs to our website. > > Imagine that some developer wants to try out Mahout and takes one hour for > that in the evening. She will go to our website, download Mahout, read the > description of an algorithm and try to run an example. In the current state > of the documentation, I'm afraid that most people will walk away > frustrated, because the website does not help them as it should. > > Best, > Sebastian > > PS: I will make my standpoint on whether Mahout should do a 1.0 release > depend on whether we manage to clean up and maintain our documentation. >
