The paragraph(s) don't necessarily clearly identify whether the non-comitters are currently only working on 0xdata or spark or both(which is actually the case), ideally a statement around non-committers doing work in both areas would be great with the obvious open-source addition that outside contributions are encouraged.
> From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 18:23:18 +0200 > Subject: consensus statement? > To: [email protected] > > 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: > > > 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?
