Looks good to me, I agree with Ted on the scalable focus, but it doesn't much matter for a board report. It's our "marketing" on our website and in our releases that matters and I think we have that covered.
-Grant On Jan 6, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Sean Owen wrote: > Board report time again. I have draft text below. Thoughts? surely > there is more news. Send it to me and/or edit it. > > > === Apache Mahout Status Report: January 2011 === > > ISSUES > > There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. > > CURRENT ACTIVITY > > Apache Mahout released version 0.4 on October 31, 2010. 0.4 included changes > related to 153 issues, summarized here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT/fixforversion/12314396 > > It continues to change significantly and across the board, though a certain > consistent scope and identity is confirming itself at this stage: primarily > Apache Mahout 0.20.x-based machine learning, for collaborative filtering, > clustering, classification, frequent itemset mining, and some related and > supporting algorithms. > > The project expects to continue with an 0.5 release around May 2011. > After that, we believe, will be a 1.0 release. After 0.5, the focus will > change to making the code base stable and 1.0-ready. > > > MAHOUT IN ACTION > > The book "Mahout in Action", published by Manning, has been completed and > will be published in February 2011.
