Hi guys, Do you have any specific release date in mind? Guys at Bigtop are planning an april release, is there any chance there will be a Hadoop 2.x compatible Mahout release by then to be included with Bigtop?
On Sunday, March 15, 2015, Pat Ferrel <p...@occamsmachete.com> wrote: > Lots of discussion off the record about doing a release but shouldn’t we > plan this? > > What has to be in a release of Mahout 0.10? > > Seems like we could release as-is but it would be nice to have some of the > already completed work that isn’t committed yet: > * mrlegacy refactored out of scala, is it possible to get this in Dmitriy? > > One question is how to package, with which version of Spark. There is a > bug in Spark 1.2.1 and I think in 1.2 (this is the big distro build) that > requires any class that uses the JavaSerializer to set a specific SparkConf > key/value to point to the guava jar on all workers. This only effects > IndexedDatasets since they use Guava’s BiMap. Rumor has it that 1.3 fixes > this but I haven’t tried it yet. > > So we are currently stuck on 1.1.1 but could document how to work around > to use 1.2 for a user who want’s to build Mahout from scratch. A user > source build on 1.3 may not require a work around. We seem to be good on > hadoop 2.x, which in itself is a good reason to release since 0.9 was not. > > What else needs to be done: > * rename module math-scala to core? > * create the distribution build. Currently this does not publish the > scaladocs and does not create artifacts for H2O or and Scala. > * is H2O really in a form to publish? > > Docs > * IMO we should name the Mahout Spark-Scala DSL and shell. More unique > names are easier to find in searches. Maybe Suneel can polish off his > sanskrit and suggest something. > * we should be ready to do some work here to restructure the CMS since it > is very 0.9 centric with Scala stuff almost an afterthought.
