On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Bob Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was taken aback that the immensely touted and convenient Canopy > KMeans package was today deprecated [1] in the incubating mahout 1.0 > with no hint that I could find warned in this, at least back through > March. This was first proposed when Streaming KMeans was first rolled into Mahout 0.8 in June 2013. The website documentation has always been a handicap until recent to improve online documentation. > And even then I can see only in retrospect that a suggestion > lurked in [2] that Streaming KMeans is preferable. I only saw this > when, in tinkering with my apparently successful use of CanopyDriver, > I ended up in the JavaDoc from the SVN repo, which is where a public > document [3] directs developers. > > At the very least, [4] should begin with a deprecation warning (I > commented Jira MAHOUT-1513 to this effect). Also, perhaps [3] should > point to the most released JavaDoc rather than the SVN trunk. > Good point, will fix this to display a warning. > > Apologies for the grumble if in fact I missed a warning posted here > and I redirect my grumble at myself. > Not at all and thanks for the feedback Prof. Morris. > > Bob > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1513 > [2] > http://mail-archives.us.apache.org/mod_mbox/mahout-user/201403.mbox/%3C1394662437.49533.YahooMailNeo%40web163502.mail.gq1.yahoo.com%3E > [3] https://mahout.apache.org/developers/developer-resources.html > [4] http://mahout.apache.org/users/clustering/canopy-clustering.html > -- > Robert A. Morris > > Emeritus Professor of Computer Science > UMASS-Boston > 100 Morrissey Blvd > Boston, MA 02125-3390 > > > Filtered Push Project > Harvard University Herbaria > Harvard University > > > web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/ > web: http://wiki.filteredpush.org > http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram > === > The content of this communication is made entirely on my > own behalf and in no way should be deemed to express > official positions of The University of Massachusetts at Boston or > Harvard University. >
