On that topic: if/when Cloudera adds a Mahout version, it will be much harder to change some basic things. Should there be a concerted effort to agree and do these? Just a minor housecleaning of problems that are easy to ignore in the "breakneck add-new-stuff mode".
Examples: Whether to use interfaces v.s. abstract classes in the core toolkits. Whether to drop a lot of the deprecated Colt stuff. On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: > This looks good, other than the obvious that we need to pick up the pace a > bit and get 0.6 out. I know I have a few issues that I need to finish off. > > -Grant > > On Oct 4, 2011, at 4:19 AM, Sean Owen wrote: > > > It's status report time again. Send me anything you'd like to change or > include: > > > > > > > > === Apache Mahout Status Report: October 2011 === > > > > ISSUES > > > > There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. > > > > CURRENT ACTIVITY > > > > Activity has been moderate during the past 3 months. There were no > > new releases, and the 0.6 release process is not yet begun, though > > will likely start within the next 2 months. Judging by Fixed issue > > count, 0.6 is about 60% as far along as previous releases. > > > > A 1.0 release is not yet on the horizon. > > > > MAHOUT DISTRIBUTIONS > > > > It appears that Mahout will be bundled with Cloudera soon. > > (https://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/cdh-user/ > > browse_thread/thread/5df8c1cb6d39288d?pli=1) > > > > As with other commercial distributions we'll keep an eye out to > > make sure it's distributed in accordance with Apache trademark > > guidelines. > > > > MAHOUT IN PRINT > > > > Mahout in Action has at last been published. > > http://manning.com/owen/ > > -------------------------------------------- > Grant Ingersoll > http://www.lucidimagination.com > Lucene Eurocon 2011: http://www.lucene-eurocon.com > > -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
