Below is the draft of the July Board report, feedback welcome. ---------------------
Report from the Apache Mahout project ## Description: The goal of Apache Mahout project is to build an environment for quickly creating scalable distributed machine learning algorithms. ## Activity: - Apache Mahout’s next generation 0.10.0 was released on April 11, 2015. A new Math environment called ‘Samsara’ for its theme of universal rejuvenation was introduced in 0.10.0 release. At Samsara’s core are general linear algebra and statistical operations with supporting data structures. Mahout-Samsara reflects a rethinking of how scalable Machine Learning algorithms are to be built and customized. - Apache Mahout 0.10.1 was released on May 31, 2015. This was a minor bug fix release following 0.10.0. - Apache Mahout now supports scalable Machine Learning on Spark, H2O and MapReduce. - The project has been working closely with Apache BigTop to integrate Apache Mahout into BigTop following a release. - Integration of Apache Mahout with Apache Flink is in the works and is being done in collaboration with Data Artisans and TU Berlin. - Ted Dunning and Suneel Marthi announced the new Mahout 0.10.0 with Spark and H2O support at BigData Everywhere (BDE) DC Conference at Tysons Corner, VA on May 13, 2015 - Anand Avati was added as a new committer. - Stevo Slavic was as a PMC member. - Team presently working on 0.10.2 release, tentatively planned for the week of July 10 2015. ## Issues: - None ## PMC/Committership changes: - Currently 25 committers and 14 PMC members in the project. - Stevo Slavić was added to the PMC on Fri May 08 2015 - Anand Avati was added as a committer on Thu Apr 23 2015 ## Releases: - 0.10.1 was released on Sun May 31 2015 - 0.10.0 was released on Sat Apr 11 2015 ## Mailing list activity: - [email protected]: - 977 subscribers (down -8 in the last 3 months): - 1324 emails sent to list (1419 in previous quarter) - [email protected]: - 1933 subscribers (down -10 in the last 3 months): - 243 emails sent to list (252 in previous quarter) - [email protected]: - 10 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): - 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) ## JIRA activity: - 85 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months - 74 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
