About Contributing

2008-05-18 Thread deneche abdelhakim
as part of my gsoc project I started adapting one of Watchmaker examples (TSP) to use with Mahout. I believe that the next step is to start a Jira issue and post an svn patch, isn't it ? I also did a fresh checkout of Mahout and run "ant test" in the core directory and got a wonderful "Tests fai

Re: About Contributing

2008-05-18 Thread Ted Dunning
Yes. That would be the normal procedure. You should also file a jira on the test that fails. Sean, who has been putting taste into the system will likely get that squared away pretty quickly. On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:46 PM, deneche abdelhakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as part of my gsoc p

Re: About Contributing

2008-05-18 Thread Ted Dunning
As you do this, it would be good to include a version or three that use simple meta-mutation. For TSP, a simple rate can be encode as single number which expresses the distribution of the number of edits to make when producing an offshoot. Given this parameter you can sample from, say, a Poisson

Re: About Contributing

2008-05-18 Thread Sean Owen
Yes this test is a bit fragile, in that it depends quite a bit on the speed of the machine that runs it. I set fairly conservative timing targets but I can easily relax them further. I will adjust this right away. On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:46 PM, deneche abdelhakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as