+1 I agree with the comments below. On Oct 7, 2011, at 19:40, Jeff Eastman <jeast...@narus.com> wrote:
> I'm also +1 on the @experimental annotation idea. Different parts of Mahout > are at different levels of maturity and the annotation makes it explicit > which parts are still in motion. Trimming out things that are > unused/unsupported is also a good idea. I do think anything we can do to > improve API consistency across the various sub-projects is valuable. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsing...@apache.org] > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 9:42 AM > To: dev@mahout.apache.org > Subject: Re: Board report draft for October > > > On Oct 7, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov wrote: > >> I support (and supported before) the annotations as maturity tags. > > In Lucene, we use @lucene.experimental > > > We also should probably looking at trimming back things or moving it to a > sandbox. I think Watchmaker is a good first candidate, since I don't think > anyone uses it or maintains it and my overtures to the Watchmaker author to > join us didn't take. Perhaps that code should just be donated back to that > project. > >> >> Also command line API seems to be good. Maybe some solver apis could be >> standardized in some ways. >> >> AbstractJob as it currently exists is more a Tool than an individual step in >> a pipeline, perhaps historically driven by a fact that most Mahout pipelines >> are one step generic job agnstic of MR specific parameters passed to them, >> so this needs some model design work before approach is truly applicable to >> any given pipeline. Pipeline execution plan also may be not so trivial which >> tools such as oozie exist. Because doing it with utter flexibility is >> expensive, and because individual steps are implementation detail not >> exposed in API, I don't see big urgency in forcing any abstract >> functionality in an internal pipeline execution for as long as they merge >> managed parameters with unmanaged configuration passed in via Tool like >> base. >> On Oct 7, 2011 6:14 AM, "Grant Ingersoll" <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: > >
