=== Apache Mahout Status Report: April 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 remained high during the past 3 months. We completed our
0.6 release on Feb. 6th that closed 182 JIRA issues.

The user@mahout.a.o mailing list has 1271 current subscribers
The dev@mahout.a.o mailing list has 661 current subscribers

Now we are embarked upon a new 0.7 release. The goal of 0.7
is to clean up and refactor existing functionality to improve 
consistency and improve user experience.

Code freeze for 0.7 is targeted for May 15.

A 1.0 release is not yet on the horizon.

COMMUNITY

We have two new committers since our January report:
- Paritosh Ranjan
- Tom Pierce


MAHOUT DISTRIBUTIONS

At least two commercially-supported Hadoop distributions now include 
Mahout in their offerings (Cloudera, MapR). We will keep an eye out to
make sure they are distributed in accordance with Apache trademark
guidelines.


MAHOUT IN PRINT

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