I gave you 3 types of problems. Define substantial. Say, does fixing mahout spark shell sound substantial enough?
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Rohit Shinde <[email protected]> wrote: > So do you have any suggestions for getting started? I would like to > contribute to something substantial that is going on, after getting > familiar with the required part of the codebase. > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > i don't think there's a formal list published anywhere. > > > > There is an informal roadmap. > > > > The contributions are, the way i see it, mainly can be in 3 areas: (1) > > project support issues like for example fixing shell compatibility with > > spark 1.3; (2) framework support problems like for example performance > and > > integrating 3rd party hardware accelerated linalg libraries; (3) > > methodology work. > > > > We have some pending items for (1) and (2) i think but for methodology > > items (3) we simply can't compile the list of everything that can > possibly > > be done and contriubted. We just don't have that much expertise, > combined. > > No one has [1]. The way it works is usually people would come up with > > pieces that they were missing on their own for some reason; and they need > > to propose methodology, parallelization strategy, maybe even a code > sketch > > -- that all will be fine. > > > > [1] http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ > > > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Rohit Shinde < > > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > But is there a list of projects that new people could take up? Even I > am > > a > > > student interested in contributing to the machine learning and data > > mining > > > parts of Apache Mahout. > > > > > > I am familiar with Scala and Java, Python and C++. > > > > > > What can I contribute to? > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Well we are predominantly Scala shop now. Being fluent in Scala seems > > > like > > > > one prerequisite. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:17 AM, Sreenivas Raghavan < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > I am interested in contributing to mahout > project. > > I > > > am > > > > > interested in algorithms, machine learning and linear algebra. > Please > > > > give > > > > > me some idea as where to start and how to start. I know python and > > some > > > > > parts of Java, so please tell me is this knowledge of languages > > enough > > > > for > > > > > writing and optimizing codes > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > *With Regards,* > > > > > *K.S.Sreenivasa Raghavan* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
