On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 1, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> 2011/10/31 Ted Dunning <[email protected]>: >>>>> Keep in mind that Cloudera has packaged the 0.5 release. That is >>>> probably >>>>> OK for most recommendation applications, but is behind the trunk release >>>>> for a substantial number of applications. >>>> >>>> As far as I know 0.5 is the current stable/official release from the >>>> project, is there a timeline for 0.6 being released? >>>> >>>> >>> There is no timeline, but there are a number of use cases for which 0.5 is >>> unsuitable relative to trunk. >> >> Those who know me know I'd be one of the first to volunteer, but given >> I'm only a user here and not a committer I can only request - is it >> possible for you all to cut a 0.6 release? > > I think we are working towards it at this point, but you know how this works: > Users become Contributors become Committers :-)
I hear you and I certainly meant no disrespect. I have the same/similar text snippet as a macro for the projects I'm involved in. ;-) Here's the thing, a bit of background: I drove the project to get Mahout accepted/integrated into CDH. It's been a huge success so far and we are seeing many users interested in the functionality you provide. However Ted has pointed out some limitations of the current official/sanctioned release (0.5) and I'd really love to get a new version, blessed you all (by the Mahout community) into the next version. I'm afraid I'm both stretched too thin at the moment and don't have the necessary expertise to help directly, but I know some other Clouderans are starting to participate at the contributor level. So apologies for the request w/o being able to offer help directly, but that's the context of my original email. Hope that makes things more clear. Whatever happens, Thanks! Patrick
