Thanks! On May 2, 2013, at 5:17 PM, Suneel Marthi <suneel_mar...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Andrew, > > > To be a contributor, there is no official Apache agreement that's needed. > Its completely between you and your employer. > The agreement that Dmitriy is referring to would be needed if you become a > committer. > > > > ________________________________ > From: Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlie...@gmail.com> > To: "dev@mahout.apache.org" <dev@mahout.apache.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 8:01 PM > Subject: Re: Call to action – Mahout needs your help > > > 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
