hi. just read the whole email just now as earlier i was travelling. i am on it. On Mar 12, 2014 12:35 PM, "Sebastian Schelter" <s...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > As you've probably noticed, I've put in a lot of effort over the last days > to kickstart cleaning up our website. I've thrown out a lot of stuff and > have been startled by the amout of outdated and incorrect information on > our website, as well as links pointing to nowhere. > > I think our lack of documentation makes it superhard to use Mahout for new > people. A crucial next step is to clean up the documentation on > classification and clustering. I cannot do this alone, because I don't have > the time and I'm not so familiar with the background of the algorithms. > > I need volunteers to go through all the pages under "Classification" and > "Clustering" on the website. For the algorithms, the content and claims of > the articles need to be checked, for the examples we need to make sure that > everything still works as described. It would also be great to move > articles from personal blogs to our website. > > Imagine that some developer wants to try out Mahout and takes one hour for > that in the evening. She will go to our website, download Mahout, read the > description of an algorithm and try to run an example. In the current state > of the documentation, I'm afraid that most people will walk away > frustrated, because the website does not help them as it should. > > Best, > Sebastian > > PS: I will make my standpoint on whether Mahout should do a 1.0 release > depend on whether we manage to clean up and maintain our documentation. >
