Hi Saikat,
I agree with Paritosh, that a great place to begin would be to write
some unit tests. This will familiarize you with the code base and help
us a lot with our 0.7 housekeeping release. The new clustering
classification components are going to unify many - but not all - of the
existing clustering algorithms to reduce their complexity by factoring
out duplication and streamlining their integration into semi-supervised
classification engines.
Please feel free to post any questions you may have in reading through
this code. This is a major refactoring effort and we will need all the
help we can get. Thanks for the offer,
Jeff
On 2/21/12 10:46 PM, Saikat Kanjilal wrote:
Hi Paritosh,Yes creating the test case would be a great first start, however
are there other tasks you guys need help with before I can do before the test
creation, I will sync trunk and start reading through the code in the
meantime.Regards
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:57:51 +0530
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Helping out with the .7 release
We are creating clustering as classification components which will help
in moving clustering out. Once the component is ready, then the
clustering algorithms would need refactoring.
The clustering as classification component and the outlier removal
component has been created.
Most of it is committed, and rest is available as a patch. See
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-929
If you will apply the latest patch available on Mahout-929 you can see
all that is available now.
If you want, you can help with the test case of
ClusterClassificationMapper available in the patch.
On 22-02-2012 10:27, Saikat Kanjilal wrote:
Hi Guys,I was interested in helping out with the clustering component of
mahout, I looked through the JIRA items below and was wondering if there is a
specific one that would be good to start with:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+MAHOUT+AND+resolution+%3D+Unresolved+AND+component+%3D+Clustering+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&mode=hide
I initially was thinking to work on Mahout-930 or Mahout-931 but could work on
others if needed.
Best Regards
