On 07.10.2011 Grant Ingersoll wrote: > 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.
+1 While I agree with Sebastian that all implementations should be easy to integrate and work with, I think this goal is independent from inclusion in any distribution. It's up to the distributor to decide on what stability guarantees he wants to give to his customers - and how to fulfill these. As always contributing to the project of course can be a way to get open issues fixed faster - it's up to us to decide on what to integrate based on what we think is best for Mahout. Isabel
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