On Oct 6, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Lance Norskog wrote: > On that topic: if/when Cloudera adds a Mahout version, it will be much > harder to change some basic things.
Why? They know how to contribute patches and how the ASF works. We move forward as a community, not based on any one company (besides there are already others who are distributing Mahout.) Mahout being baked into CDH or MapR or Foo doesn't effect how we as a community choose to develop things. Besides, we have been very explicit about the fact that we consider ourselves to be less than 1.0 release and that we aren't yet beholden to backwards compatibility. We will try to do so where feasible, but our APIs still have a ways to go in terms of hardening them for a 1.0 release. -Grant
