Umbrella-ish is good. Linear algebra, genetic algorithms, neural networks,
clustering, monte carlo, simplex...These need an umbrella. Some of the other
Apache projects that do math may be interested in moving that piece under the
Apache Math umbrella.
Personally I like to see each in a separate repository dedicated to the
subject, along with the corresponding documentation, etc So:
apache-math (Central repository describing the project as a whole with the
documentation that cuts across modules)
apache-math-linear-real
apache-math-linear-field
apache-math-optimization-genetic
apache-math-optimization-simplex
etc.
And hopefully:
apache-math-optimization-integer
apache-math-optimization-mixed
And more..
Cheers,
Ole
On 01/24/2016 04:41 PM, Phil Steitz wrote:
On Jan 24, 2016, at 3:17 PM, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote:
Just plain and simple "Apache Math" maybe?
Or is it taken already?
It's not taken; but I thought it was too broad-sounding and in fact umbrella-ish. There
are other ASF projects that do math-relates things. I think adding
"components" makes it look more like a library of base components that other
math-related projects can use.
Phil
Gilles
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:46:17 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote:
On 1/24/16 2:16 PM, James Carman wrote:
I guess it depends on the scope of what the new TLP is going to do.
This is slightly jumping the gun, as we do have the opportunity in
forming the new TLP to revisit the initial goals of [math]; but I
suspect that initially at least we will mostly continue to be a
general-purpose Java math library, trying to provide IP-clean,
easily integrated, standard algorithm-based solutions to common math
programming problems. We have grown to the point where we will
almost certainly break the distribution up into separate
"components." No umbrella, but likely multiple release artifacts.
Similar in some ways to what happened with [http], which is why I
suggested the same approach to naming.
Regarding picking a mathematician for the name, I don't much like
that idea as whoever you choose, you end up loading some math area
and / or cultural bias into the name.
Phil
Umbrella projects aren't that popular these days, from what I understand.
Maybe an homage to a famous mathematician? Apache Newton? Apache Euler?
Apache Euclid?
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 4:08 PM Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote:
We need to agree on a name. My own preference is for a boring,
descriptive name, but I am manifestly not a marketing guy, so won't
be offended if others want to be more creative.
My suggestion is
MathComponents
Hearkens back to HttpComponents, which has worked pretty well.
Phil
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