On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Deron Eriksson <deroneriks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > The SystemML podling report for February is due tomorrow. Please let me > know if any additions or changes need to be made to the following draft. > > Deron > > ------------ > > SystemML > > SystemML provides declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) that aims > at > flexible specification of ML algorithms and automatic generation of hybrid > runtime plans ranging from single node, in-memory computations, to > distributed computations running on Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache > Spark. > > SystemML has been incubating since 2015-11-02. > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation: > > 1. Grow SystemML community: increase mailing list activity, > increase adoption of SystemML for scalable machine learning, encourage > data scientists to adopt DML and PyDML algorithm scripts, respond to > user feedback to ensure SystemML meets the requirements of real-world > situations, write papers, and present talks about SystemML. > 2. Core library improvements, including Apache Spark integration. > This is not a block for graduating. Graduation is about learning the "Apache way" and being about community over code, diversity, etc. Nothing specific to code stage or quality. > 3. Produce a release. > > You can also say that this is in progress. > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be > aware of? > > Our JIRA site is up and operational. > > How has the community developed since the last report? > > Our mailing list in January had 123 messages (7 of which were Jenkins). > We > have had several useful discussions on the mailing list concerning > various > aspects of SystemML. A data scientist has created JIRAs regarding > usability > issues and we are addressing these issues. We have had several useful > additional discussions on our JIRA site and in our Pull Request > conversations. > > How has the project developed since the last report? > > Numerous additions have been made to the project, including core > functionality, usability improvements, and documentation. The project has > had > 96 commits since January 6. In the last 30 days, 126 new issues have been > reported on our JIRA site and 68 issues have been resolved. We are in the > process of producing our first Apache release, version 0.9.0. > RC3 passed the SystemML PMC vote and is currently being voted on by the > IPMC. > > > Date of last release: > > NONE > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected? > > NONE > -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
