On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been involved in side conversations to try to build a bit of unity > among our community and would like to propose this as a statement of what > we are doing: > > > This is secondary, tactical goal. The purpose of what i did has always been a flexible ML platform agnostic of a particular platform that purposely goes away from Java/MR paradigm. Like i said, i have always emphasized that we are not building spark-(or any platform-specific) algorithms. The continuous efforts to tie my investigations to Spark esp. to Spark as a sole component of this work were a total mis-statement of the goals of this work. > Apache Mahout is moving immediately to a faster execution model. The first > of these is Spark. Outside contributions are always encouraged. > > > As a bit of commentary, it is clear that what the committers are working on > is Spark and it is clear that Spark will be the first new platform for > Mahout. It is also clear that there are non-committers (the 0xdata crew > for one) who are working with the community to extend Mahout beyond just > Spark. As a statement of where the community is *right* now, however, I > don't think we need to say much more than that we encourage contributions. > > Sound fair? Correct? >
