Re: Mahout fpg

[Qinghao Dai <ro...@gmail.com>]

Sounds interesting.
I would like to contribute to fpg part of mahout, if it can be saved from
mahout.

Best Regards,
Qinghao


2013/11/29 Isabel Drost-Fromm <is...@apache.org>

> On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:55:13 +0800
> Jason Lee <wu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I noticed lots of algorithms implementations has deprecated in Mahout
> > 0.8 and removed in 0.9,  but no reasons or comments been marked. Can
> > i ask why?
>
> As Suneel mentioned earlier: Before removing these algorithms we asked
> on the user list for input on what users really needed.
>
> If you need anything that was marked deprecated you are welcome to step
> up, provide patches and improvements to re-vive implementations that
> are currently in the danger of being deleted soon.
>
>
> > Btw, Mahout API is a little lack javadoc comments, every contributors
> > of Mahout should has the responsibility to add more javadoc comments
> > to the java file they created.
>
> Not an excuse but maybe a step forward: If you find classes and
> packages lacking documentation that you know well (or are in the
> process of getting to know well) we'd be grateful if you could provide
> the missing documentation as a patch to the code base*.
>
>
> Isabel
>
> * Also in my experience documentation patches tend to be easier to get
>   approval for from your employer than donating whole new
>   implementations that you have developed internally...
>