There is indeed contributor agreement http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt but i think apache does not require it for each single contribution... if you want to become permanent committer and supporter of your sizeable contribution then yes Apache would want you to sign it.
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Andrew Musselman <andrew.mussel...@gmail.com > wrote: > Is there an official "contributors' agreement" I would need to have my > employer's legal team execute before I can contribute? I'm filling out > paperwork now internally to clear the way to be able to. > > Thanks > Andrew > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > We would love to have you! > > > > I will let others answer about things to do since I have to fly. > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Andrew Musselman < > > andrew.mussel...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > > > In case this thread is still a good place to reply with an offer to > help, > > > I'd love to pitch in. I have built a few production recommenders, most > > > recently using Mahout at a large retailer along with my partner where > we > > > used ALS, with a pipeline of transforming transactions in XML into > > vectors > > > using Pig, running them through Mahout, and writing to Cassandra. I've > > > also used Hadoop extensively and am experienced writing non-trivial UDF > > > libraries for Pig, so I am comfortable in that world. > > > > > > Where to start? Do you guys have bugs ranked in priority? > > > > > > Thanks > > > Andrew > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Daniel Longest <dlong...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Have you used Mahout in some context before? Did you already > checkout > > > the > > > > > code base and build it? It usually helps if you are looking into > > > > solving a > > > > > specific problem with the project to find an area that interests > you > > > > > personally. > > > > > > > > I worked through the Coursera ML course, which is how I heard about > > > > Mahout. I then read through some of Mahout in Action. I have > checked > > > > out the codebase, had difficulty building it on Windows, but I've > done > > > > it successfully on Ubuntu tonight so full steam ahead. Not sure I > have > > > > a specific interest, seen a lot of good ideas thrown around on this > > > > thread this week. Ted had listed some possible GSOC ideas that I'd > be > > > > open to if no students took them on. I see the JIRA has an "intro" > > > > tag, was going to explore some of those a bit to get my feet wet. > > > > > > > > Daniel > > > > > > > > > >
