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Posted to user@mahout.apache.org by Bob Morris <mo...@gmail.com> on 2014/04/18 23:47:18 UTC
Grumble about (lack of) warning of deprecation of Canopy KMeans
I was taken aback that the immensely touted and convenient Canopy
KMeans package was today deprecated [1] in the incubating mahout 1.0
with no hint that I could find warned in this, at least back through
March. And even then I can see only in retrospect that a suggestion
lurked in [2] that Streaming KMeans is preferable. I only saw this
when, in tinkering with my apparently successful use of CanopyDriver,
I ended up in the JavaDoc from the SVN repo, which is where a public
document [3] directs developers.
At the very least, [4] should begin with a deprecation warning (I
commented Jira MAHOUT-1513 to this effect). Also, perhaps [3] should
point to the most released JavaDoc rather than the SVN trunk.
Apologies for the grumble if in fact I missed a warning posted here
and I redirect my grumble at myself.
Bob
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1513
[2] http://mail-archives.us.apache.org/mod_mbox/mahout-user/201403.mbox/%3C1394662437.49533.YahooMailNeo%40web163502.mail.gq1.yahoo.com%3E
[3] https://mahout.apache.org/developers/developer-resources.html
[4] http://mahout.apache.org/users/clustering/canopy-clustering.html
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Re: Grumble about (lack of) warning of deprecation of Canopy KMeans
Posted by Suneel Marthi <sm...@apache.org>.
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Bob Morris <mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was taken aback that the immensely touted and convenient Canopy
> KMeans package was today deprecated [1] in the incubating mahout 1.0
> with no hint that I could find warned in this, at least back through
> March.
This was first proposed when Streaming KMeans was first rolled into Mahout
0.8 in June 2013.
The website documentation has always been a handicap until recent to
improve online documentation.
> And even then I can see only in retrospect that a suggestion
> lurked in [2] that Streaming KMeans is preferable. I only saw this
> when, in tinkering with my apparently successful use of CanopyDriver,
> I ended up in the JavaDoc from the SVN repo, which is where a public
> document [3] directs developers.
>
> At the very least, [4] should begin with a deprecation warning (I
> commented Jira MAHOUT-1513 to this effect). Also, perhaps [3] should
> point to the most released JavaDoc rather than the SVN trunk.
>
Good point, will fix this to display a warning.
>
> Apologies for the grumble if in fact I missed a warning posted here
> and I redirect my grumble at myself.
>
Not at all and thanks for the feedback Prof. Morris.
>
> Bob
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1513
> [2]
> http://mail-archives.us.apache.org/mod_mbox/mahout-user/201403.mbox/%3C1394662437.49533.YahooMailNeo%40web163502.mail.gq1.yahoo.com%3E
> [3] https://mahout.apache.org/developers/developer-resources.html
> [4] http://mahout.apache.org/users/clustering/canopy-clustering.html
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> Robert A. Morris
>
> Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
> UMASS-Boston
> 100 Morrissey Blvd
> Boston, MA 02125-3390
>
>
> Filtered Push Project
> Harvard University Herbaria
> Harvard University
>
>
> web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/
> web: http://wiki.filteredpush.org
> http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram
> ===
> The content of this communication is made entirely on my
> own behalf and in no way should be deemed to express
> official positions of The University of Massachusetts at Boston or
> Harvard University.
>