I think you're welcome to exclude the last two sections as they have been in the last 2 reports more or less verbatim. It's OK if these are short.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks good to me. > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Jeff Eastman > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 7/5/12 11:02 AM, Jeff Eastman wrote: >> >>> Here's a draft of the July Board report. So far I have not been able to >>> coax Ezmlm into giving me the list counts and, since the report is due on >>> the 11th, I will delete this section if I cannot get those numbers by then. >>> >> Oh yes, >> >> === DRAFT Apache Mahout Status Report: July 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 remained high during the past 3 months. We completed our >> 0.7 release on June 16th that closed 63 JIRA issues. >> >> The [email protected] mailing list has yyyyyyy current subscribers >> The [email protected] mailing list has zzzzzzz current subscribers >> >> Now we are embarked upon a new 0.8 release. A goal of 0.8 >> is to continue clean up of existing functionality to improve >> consistency and improve user experience. In this release, some >> new additions to Mahout functionality are also planned. >> >> Code freeze for 0.8 is targeted for Sept 15. >> >> A 1.0 release is not yet on the horizon. >> >> COMMUNITY >> >> We have no new committers since our April report: >> >> MAHOUT DISTRIBUTIONS >> >> At least two commercially-supported Hadoop distributions now include >> Mahout in their offerings (Cloudera, MapR). We will keep an eye out to >> make sure they are distributed in accordance with Apache trademark >> guidelines. >> >> >> MAHOUT IN PRINT >> >> "Mahout in Action", Owen, Anil, Dunning & Friedman is being well >> received. >> (http://manning.com/owen/) >> >> >> >> >> >>
