Re: Regarding Issue MAHOUT-1941

2017-03-07 Thread Saikat Kanjilal
Aditya, Please take a look at the plan in mahout-1929 specifically the list of next steps I identified to see which of those interests you and which you think you can finish in a managable period of time, for all GLM discussions lets keep all our discussions inside that JIRA. I am also in

Re: Contributing to Apache Mahout via Google Summer of Code 2017

2017-03-07 Thread Andrew Palumbo
Hello Aditya, Welcome to Mahout! Here is some information on GSoC requirements [1]. While Mahout has participated in the GSoC before, please note that you must find a committer on the Mahout project who will have the bandwidth to be a good mentor to you. My suggestion would be to start

Re: Regarding Issue MAHOUT-1941

2017-03-07 Thread Aditya
Thanks for the advice Saikat. I'll try to get some hands on experience. I have gone through the mail thread " Contributing an algorithm for Samsara " and was wondering if there are any unit tests / any bug fixes pending to which I could contribute. I will also go through the list of issues in

Re: Contributing to Apache Mahout via Google Summer of Code 2017

2017-03-07 Thread Aditya
Hello Andrew, With respect to the application process for Google Summer of Code, once you guys are sure that I'll be able to contribute to the community on something meaningful during summer. I'll be drafting a proposal (with guidance from someone from Mahout) detailing the timeline and the plan