To be honest, I don't understand the issue here. Let's look at what's
happening to the codebase: in the 3 months since our last release in
February, we had 59 changes [1].
>> Outside contributions are always encouraged.
Out of the 59 changes, 28 came from 18 distinct external contributors,
that is close to 50%.
>> it is clear that what the committers are working on is Spark
I think thats a big misconception. I see only 3 changes related to Spark
plus a few in jira that are ongoing and haven't made it to the codebase
yet. Clearly, the main pile of work in the last weeks was documentation
and cleanup, not Spark. We still have lots of issues open w.r.t. to
writing and fixing documentation, recreating examples, cleaning up
legacy code.
--sebastian
[1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mahout/trunk/CHANGELOG
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?
