Hey Dustin! Welcome to the community.
At the moment, we are in the middle of a release. The most immediate thing you could help with would be to help us test the release candidate. See Andrew's email. Moving forward though, there are lots of opportunities- Some things that have been kicked around on here over the last few months include: - Migrating website to a git based so that non committers can edit and contribute to the docs. - Expanding the algorithms section (are there any algorithms you are familiar with? Implementing in Mahout would be a good start) - I have been toying with some docker based integration tests if you happen to be familiar with Dockers and using them for maven IT (or want to learn) - Beginner issues- at the moment there aren't many on the JIRA board bc we fixed most in preparation for the release. Testing the release would be a good start point however, because it will get you familiar with building Mahout ( a necessary first step). Items 1 and 3 are a bit advanced for someone just starting out- so unless you have some specific familiarity- I would direct you toward number 2. In that case- check out: https://github.com/apache/mahout/tree/master/math-scala/src/main/scala/org/apache/mahout/math/algorithms There is the algorithm framework- look through it. If there is an algorithm you have in mind (try to start with an easy one), let us know and open a JIRA ticket! Best, tg Trevor Grant Data Scientist https://github.com/rawkintrevo http://stackexchange.com/users/3002022/rawkintrevo http://trevorgrant.org *"Fortunate is he, who is able to know the causes of things." -Virgil* On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 6:12 PM, dustin vanstee <dustinvans...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi I have been looking into mahout and think it has some very nice > ML/Linear alg capabilities. I would like to contribute to the project, and > I was hoping someone on the mailing list might be able to give me a few > ideas about where I could start. Thanks! >
