Grant, I don't mind at all being able to change the wiki, and I would probably do so when I could, but leaving comments would be enough for me.
I would not want to be in the way of distributing the wiki, in case you want to do that. Regards, Paul Elschot Op Saturday 26 January 2008 13:57:57 schreef Grant Ingersoll: > Great response, I guess I should have worded that differently, or > first brought up the issue of the Wiki. So, let me back up, and let's > make the decision about what to do with the wiki. :-) > > With the Wiki, we have two choices in how we want to use it. > > 1. If, and it is a big if, we want to use it as official documentation > (i.e. export it and ship it with any official releases), then we can > only grant edit permissions to those with CLAs on file at the ASF. > You don't have to be a committer, you just have to be able to say you > grant your work to the ASF. Anybody can file a CLA. Many projects at > the ASF use the Wiki in this way (Struts for example) > > 2. As in Lucene/Solr land, we can have the wiki be open to anybody > with an account. We can't, however, ever ship the wiki with an > official release. This also means, we will need to generate other > docs that can be shipped. Also, if we choose this one, there is no > going back, or at least not without a lot of pain. > > I guess I was operating under 1, but that probably doesn't make sense, > given that one of the main ways of participating early on will be to > fill in thoughts/ideas on the algorithms, etc. > > So, I guess I would vote for #2 given the response. Anyone else have > any opinion on it? > > Last, if you already have a CLA on file, let me know and I can add you > right away. (Karl, you're all set.) > > -Grant > > On Jan 26, 2008, at 3:45 AM, Paul Elschot wrote: > > > Op Saturday 26 January 2008 04:23:08 schreef Grant Ingersoll: > >> As people are coming online, please get a Confluence account and let > >> me know what your username is, so I can add you to the Mahout > >> administrators. Right now, only admins can edit the wiki, but anyone > >> can leave comments. > > > > My user name there is Paul Elschot. > > > >> I have added several new items on the wiki > >> (http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/index > >> ). Most notably, let's try to start filling in the TODO list and get > >> some basic build infrastructure in place. > >> > >> Does anyone feel particularly strong about initial algorithms to > >> tackle? I'm thinking k-Means, naive bayes or neural nets, but am > >> obviously open to other suggestions. > > > > With rather low priority I've been trying to get Yale working on > > Lucene term vectors. > > Without success so far, but that is mostly because I have not given > > it enough time. > > This try out is still mostly in design phase, and one of the things > > on the list is > > to design things to be parallelizable on Hadoop. > > > > Needless to say I'm very pleasantly surprised with mahout starting up. > > > > Regards, > > Paul Elschot > > -------------------------- > Grant Ingersoll > http://lucene.grantingersoll.com > http://www.lucenebootcamp.com > > Lucene Helpful Hints: > http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/BasicsOfPerformance > http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ > > > > > >
