Hi, On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Stevo Slavić <ssla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please consider shipping Mahout 0.8 organized as it is now, and come back > to ideas for the future after release. > Personally I see the current discussion as a means to find out what people want Mahout to be in the long time and on how to come back to increased activity. > > I agree, having more freely accessible data sets would help, not only > Mahout. Maybe create a subproject or separate Apache project for that. > There is one already: <http://lucene.apache.org/openrelevance/> - though currently there's not too much activity. > > As non-committer I'd contribute more to Mahout, had github be primary > source. Now, when I contribute a pull request, it gets merged to Apache git > server by committer, and I don't get recorded as contributor on github. > Maybe just workflow can be changed to improve this. > Valuable input indeed. Though given that we are still using svn as canonical version control system that sounds like a bigger project to me. > > Discussing about ideas for the future, have Mahout committers considered > using scalding and/or algebird instead of or along with Java Hadoop API? > > Just to clarify: Do you mean re-implenting what is available in these languages or making what is implemented available to these languages? Isabel
