=== Apache Mahout Status Report: October 2010 ===

ISSUES

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

The project is in "code freeze" leading up to a final 0.4 release
planned for this week. The 150 issues resolved for this release
can be viewed here:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?
  pid=12310751&fixfor=12314396

As of 0.4, the project will still be in a state of significant
change and evolution. We still plan an 0.5 release in 6 months
before contemplating a 1.0 release. However we believe the project's
code base is beginning to stabilize, as relatively more effort is
going into code cleanup, tests, polishing, removal of stale code.

Judging by volume of mailing list messages and diversity of senders
we have reason to believe usage of Apache Mahout is beginning to
significantly expand.

NEW COMMITTERS

Sebastian Schelter was elected as a new committer in recognition of
work on distributed recommender implementations.

GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE

Mahout completed its GSoC projects. Two did not complete due to lack of 
student participation. Two completed successfully. One remains in progress.

MAHOUT IN ACTION

The book "Mahout in Action", published by Manning, has reached 15/16
chapters complete and will soon enter final review.

PROJECT BRANDING

We've reviewed the Apache Mahout home page (http://mahout.apache.org)
just this week, per the e-mail request regarding branding.

Project committer Robin Anil is addressing the following issues in
this regard:

- Add standard www.apache.org links to navigation
- Ensure "TM" is used appropriate in names and logos
- Add a DOAP file (we are having issues with the generator but that
  can be taken up offline)