Re: Call to action – Mahout needs your help

2013-05-02 Thread Robby
Hi Ted, Glad to hear that :) Try to look at the current wiki and see what I can help. Regards, Feris On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: > Actually naivete is one of the best qualifications! > > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Robby > wrote: > > > Hi Isabel, > > > > I th

Re: Call to action – Mahout needs your help

2013-05-02 Thread Andrew Musselman
Thanks! On May 2, 2013, at 5:17 PM, Suneel Marthi wrote: > Andrew, > > > To be a contributor, there is no official Apache agreement that's needed. > Its completely between you and your employer. > The agreement that Dmitriy is referring to would be needed if you become a > committer. > > >

Re: GSOC 2013 Aspirant on #MAHOUT-1177 and #MAHOUT-1179

2013-05-02 Thread satyam sinha
Review Request : I've submitted a very generalized proposal to ASF. Is there some way I can confirm that it has been channeled and delivered to mahout? The proposal is as following. Any advice is appreciated. (Perhaps i should have provided a link instead ? ) *Short description:* Main goal of thi

Re: GSOC 2013 Aspirant on #MAHOUT-1177 and #MAHOUT-1179

2013-05-02 Thread satyam sinha
I lost a lot of time due to semester-evaluations at my institute.(I should have notified perhaps.) The summer break is begun and now I have uninterrupted time to devote to GSOC. I have already setup hadoop-1.0.4 on opensuse-12.3. Mahout 0.8-SNAPSHOT via svn on netbeans-7.3 I've been running variou

Re: Call to action – Mahout needs your help

2013-05-02 Thread Suneel Marthi
Andrew, To be a contributor, there is no official Apache agreement that's needed. Its completely between you and your employer. The agreement that Dmitriy is referring to would be needed if you become a committer. From: Dmitriy Lyubimov To: "dev@mahout.apach

Re: Call to action – Mahout needs your help

2013-05-02 Thread Dmitriy Lyubimov
There is indeed contributor agreement http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt but i think apache does not require it for each single contribution... if you want to become permanent committer and supporter of your sizeable contribution then yes Apache would want you to sign it. On Thu, May 2, 201

Re: Call to action – Mahout needs your help

2013-05-02 Thread Andrew Musselman
Is there an official "contributors' agreement" I would need to have my employer's legal team execute before I can contribute? I'm filling out paperwork now internally to clear the way to be able to. Thanks Andrew On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > We would love to have you!

Re: [jira] [Commented] (MAHOUT-1177) GSOC 2013: Reform and simplify the clustering APIs

2013-05-02 Thread Shannon Quinn
This sounds excellent. I'd be happy to assist in unifying the interfaces of the spectral methods in particular. On 5/2/13 3:54 PM, Yu Lee (JIRA) wrote: [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1177?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentI

[jira] [Issue Comment Deleted] (MAHOUT-1177) GSOC 2013: Reform and simplify the clustering APIs

2013-05-02 Thread Zhivko Lazarov (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1177?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Zhivko Lazarov updated MAHOUT-1177: --- Comment: was deleted (was: Hello, I am an undergraduate student who is very interested in t

Worth looking int Avro for serialization efforts ?

2013-05-02 Thread satyam sinha
There has been effort on this in the past and with the recent interest in serialization and I/O formatting I was wondering if we can look into Avro again. Insights?

[jira] [Commented] (MAHOUT-1177) GSOC 2013: Reform and simplify the clustering APIs

2013-05-02 Thread Yu Lee (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1177?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13647841#comment-13647841 ] Yu Lee commented on MAHOUT-1177: Hello Robin Anil, Jeff Eastman, Dan Filimon, and Ted Dun

Re: Committing to mahout-git?

2013-05-02 Thread Robin Anil
diffs from git can be applied on svn using patch -P1 < patch.file I tried this with your patches. I dont know much about the apache mahout git mirror to answer the former question

Committing to mahout-git?

2013-05-02 Thread Dan Filimon
Hi, I've put off committing my changes for too long already, and now that I'm finally doing it, I would *really* love to push changes to the github repo. Is this possible right now, or do I have to check out an SVN version, fiddle with the diff and get it working? Thanks! :)

Re: Review Request: MAHOUT-1192 [2]: Speed up Vector Operations

2013-05-02 Thread Dan Filimon
Robin, I addressed the 7 points you mentioned, except for the one about empty vectors. It's unclear what aggregate should return gor empty vectors (either through an exception or 0) and so I opted for 0 everywhere. The new tests are VectorBinaryAssignTest, VectorBinaryAssignCostTest, VectorBinaryA

[jira] [Commented] (MAHOUT-1200) Mahout tests depend on writing to /tmp/hadoop-$user

2013-05-02 Thread Dawid Weiss (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1200?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13647377#comment-13647377 ] Dawid Weiss commented on MAHOUT-1200: - Another benefit is that if tests are run on a