Yes. That's the idea. The rationale is that we want users to have good, well-maintained software.
The only way to do that is to remove unmaintained software. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Tim Smith <timsmit...@hotmail.com> wrote: > So is the bottom line if the code isnt maintained its dropped from the > distro? > > > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:25:20 -0800 > > From: suneel_mar...@yahoo.com > > Subject: Re: The maintainer of FPG algorithm > > To: user@mahout.apache.org > > > > Now that FPG has been resurrected for 0.9, there is one another FPG > implementation that was submitted and is pending review. See > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1355. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 10:15 PM, Ted Dunning < > ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > There is no assignment of these things. > > > > Anybody can contribute. If you contribute regularly, then the component > > will survive. > > > > The first things to do to help the PFGP component survive are to > > > > 1) do a quick scan of the history of the component both in JIRA and in > the > > mailing list archives > > > > 2) do a quick scan of the recent alternative algorithms and summarize the > > options > > > > 3) make a plan to address the problems that were found in (1) and justify > > switching to an option from (2) if you want to. > > > > The good news for you is that since this component is designated for > > removal now, you have essentially no compatibility concerns. You can > > support the current component or come up with a modified or even entirely > > new component that does the same thing. > > > > This conversation should probably move to d...@mahout.apache.org at this > > point. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Yoonmin Nam <rony...@dgist.ac.kr> > wrote: > > > > > If it is available, then I also want to become a maintainer of FGP > > > algorithm. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Yoonmin > > > > > > >
