=== Apache Mahout Status Report: October 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. 

The user@mahout.a.o mailing list has 1448 current subscribers.
The dev@mahout.a.o mailing list has 734 current subscribers.

Now we are embarked upon a new 0.8 release. A goal of 0.8
is to continue clean up of existing functionality to improve 
consistency and improve user experience. In this release, some
new additions to Mahout functionality are also planned.

Code freeze for 0.8 is targeted for Nov 15.

A 1.0 release is not yet on the horizon.

COMMUNITY

Jake Mannix has been elected to be the new Mahout PMC Chair.
Paritosh Ranjan has been elected to the Mahout PMC. 
We have no new committers since our July report