I updated the podling document to reflect this issue and WIP to address. Only thing I don't have is a date when we'll be done with LDA-C. Any ideas?
-----Original Message----- From: Smith, Nathanael P [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ONI-LDA-C Hi Mark, Option B with Spark LDA is already underway, I am not sure of an ETA on the code changes. - Nathanael > On Oct 28, 2016, at 2:00 PM, Mark Grover <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > Vartika mentioned this in a hallway conversation, we decided to bring > it up here. > > ONI's LDA implementation > <https://github.com/Open-Network-Insight/oni-lda-c/blob/01f1d6fa81ba0b > 3aa1080ca3a3ebd5c679720735/license.txt> > is > written in C, but most importantly, is GPL Licensed. And, from the > looks of it, it's a hard dependency. > > So, as we migrate to Apache, this needs to be changed. Either: > A. it needs to be a softer dependency, or B. we need to find a > substitute. > > I have noticed Spark MLLib has LDA, and given that this algorithm is > being called from Spark anyways, Option B (with Spark) would be a > reasonable choice. > > What do others think? Any other options? > > Mark
