Also, we need to setup some Javadocs targets and then we can publish
the release javadocs on the website, and also start building nightlies
on Hudson. I'm in the process of setting up to run the tests nightly.
-Grant
On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
Hi Mahouters,
I'd like to suggest we start gearing up for a 0.1 release. Since
this is our first one, we're going to have a bit of extra work to
get things in the right shape, so any extra time you have would be
most appreciated.
First and foremost, would be testing, etc. on the current trunk
(assuming SVN is up, which it doesn't appear to be right now) and
providing feedback on what's good and bad. This is especially true
of people who have access to clusters (which many of us committers
will soon have thanks to a kind donation by Amazon.)
Second, we should go through JIRA and (un)mark issues in JIRA as
either in or out of 0.1 or closed. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT/fixforversion/12312976
Of these, MAHOUT-9, 56 and 60 are all pretty much done, they just
need a bit more documentation. M-54 looks like it could be closed,
right Jeff, as the reporter hasn't responded to questions, etc.?
So, if you have something you think should be in 0.1, please go mark
it as such in JIRA.
Next, we need to address https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-69
, at a minimum. One of us should look at other ASF projects (Lucene/
Solr) and grab their "How To Make a Release" documentation (on the
wiki) and put it up on our wiki. Volunteers?
After that, I'd suggest we are ready for a release. Typically, we
call a "freeze" date, and then we release a series of release
candidates. For Mahout, since we are so young and this is such an
early release, I don't think we need to obsess too much over this.
Our APIs are likely to change in the future, so we should just keep
things light: release early, release often. I volunteer to be the
release manager.
With the release ready to go, then we can go out and make some
noise, to help attract more people, etc. We can work w/ the ASF PRC
(public relations committee) on this a bit, I think. Additionally,
those of us who blog should do so. I'd also think it would be great
if anyone with Wikipedia savviness could put us on the map there.
Currently, Wikipedia Mahout is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahout
but I think we could make it a "disambiguation" page, or at least
add in an Apache Mahout page. Just food for thought... Our
community is actually pretty big for a new project, or at least the
number of lurkers is pretty big. I think a number of people are in
"wait and see" mode, so we (i.e. committers and active contributors)
need to get over the hump a bit so that others will feel more
comfortable joining in. An official release should help with that,
but do let us know if you have other ideas as well.
Time wise, I'd love it if we could have the release out within the
month, but of course, I know we are all busy. That being said,
we've got a lot of goodness in our repo now, what w/ Taste,
Clustering, the GA stuff and the Naive Bayes stuff (kudos to our two
active GSOC students Deneche and Robin!)
Cheers,
Grant
