On Sunday, March 24, 2013 11:27:39 AM Danny-Michael Busch wrote: > Am 24.03.2013 11:08, schrieb Isabel Drost-Fromm: > > At the current point Mahout doesn't need any new algorithms > > Who decides whether Mahout needs any new algorithm or not?
In general this is up to the community. Effectively though the committers of this project promise their users that whatever is shipped with Mahout is high quality, does not have any security issues and gets fixed should there be any bugs. We as committers can only live up to this promise if we are confident that we understand the code and have the cycles to maintain it for the years to come. As a result random code drops are generally strongly discouraged. If it seems obvious though that the contributor will stay around and help with fixing issues in the next years, this is a different story. Hope this general answer helps you. Can you share more on your motivation for your question? Have you been planning to contribute an implementation yourself? Isabel
