> On May 6, 2014, at 12:23 PM, 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: > > > 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?
As I see it we are doing a lot of clean-up and housekeeping, have set map-reduce code aside, and are exploring new interaction/ux modes and compute frameworks.
