=== Apache Mahout Status Report: January 2012 === Apache Mahout provides implementations of machine learning algorithms (collaborative filtering, clustering, classification, and more) for large-scale data, mostly via Hadoop-based implementations.
ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. CURRENT ACTIVITY Activity has been high during the past 3 months as we have begun the release process for 0.6. Of 181 issues targeted for this release, there are only 4 remaining. Code freeze, originally targeted for Jan 1, is currently being delayed by these outstanding issues. We still expect to release 0.6 in the near future. A 1.0 release is not yet on the horizon. COMMUNITY There are no new committers since last report. Dmitriy Lyubimov has been elected a member of the Mahout PMC. MAHOUT DISTRIBUTIONS Mahout has been included in the Cloudera CDH3u2 release. (http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2011/11/cdh3u2-apache-mahout-integration) As with other commercial distributions we will keep an eye out to make sure it is distributed in accordance with Apache trademark guidelines. MAHOUT IN PRINT "Mahout in Action", Owen, Anil, Dunning & Friedman has been published and is being well received. (http://manning.com/owen/)
