[REPORT] Apache Mahout

[Jeff Eastman <je...@windwardsolutions.com>]

=== Apache Mahout Status Report: January 2012 ===

Apache Mahout provides implementations of machine learning algorithms
(collaborative filtering, clustering, classification, and more) for
large-scale data, mostly via Hadoop-based implementations.

ISSUES

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

Activity has been high during the past 3 months as we have begun
the release process for 0.6. Of 181 issues targeted for this release,
there are only 4 remaining.

Code freeze, originally targeted for Jan 1, is currently being delayed
by these outstanding issues. We still expect to release 0.6 in the
near future.

A 1.0 release is not yet on the horizon.

COMMUNITY

There are no new committers since last report.

Dmitriy Lyubimov has been elected a member of the Mahout PMC.

MAHOUT DISTRIBUTIONS

Mahout has been included in the Cloudera CDH3u2 release.
(http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2011/11/cdh3u2-apache-mahout-integration)

As with other commercial distributions we will keep an eye out to
make sure it is distributed in accordance with Apache trademark
guidelines.

MAHOUT IN PRINT

"Mahout in Action", Owen, Anil, Dunning & Friedman has been published
and is being well received.
(http://manning.com/owen/)