I think this is not an issue of our choice, but an issue of capability. As far as i have witnessed during past 2 years, capability to do anything with MR is at the very least lacking on the grandest of scales, if not completely gone from this project.
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Andrew Palumbo <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would also suggest that we should try to find out if there is anybody > actually using Hadoop 1 with Mahout. > ________________________________________ > From: Isabel Drost-Fromm <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 4:20:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Hadoop 1 Support Going forward > > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 01:22:26AM +0000, Andrew Palumbo wrote: > > Currently I don't believe that there Is a reason not to, aside from > regular Jenkins hiccups and some minor addition to the complexity of the > example script > > I think there are two questions we should be asking ourselves here: > > If tomorrow someone comes along and asks us to fix a major bug/security > issue, > is there someone within our community who has enough insight to be able to > do > that? > > Assuming we aren't making any modifications to this part of the code base > anyway, what is the advantage for downstream users to keep that code > around in > newer versions as opposed to using an older release of Mahout? E.g. do they > automatically benefit from performance improvements made elsewhere? > > > Isabel > >
