All, I think that the pieces of Mahout that I have any working knowledge of have reached roughly the state they're going to reach, as reasonably stable and mature. I don't personally have plans or motivation to update or add to it significantly in Mahout. Because of this, and because I am short on the time to make changes here, I don't intend to put any significant work into the project going forward. I think it's right to reflect that by "going emeritus". I don't know if that means something formally, other than to say I don't mind not voting on project issues and having commit access since those things should belong to active members only. We can mange any process separately
I would still like to stay on the mailing lists to answer questions of course, which is most all I am doing anyway. So, not much really changes except to perhaps set expectations (in JIRA, notably) appropriately. Sean
