=== Apache Mahout Status Report: April 2011 ===

ISSUES

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

The project expects to continue with an 0.5 release around May 2011.
115 issues have been resolved for 0.5, with 7 more planned before the
release:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true
  &jqlQuery=project+%3D+MAHOUT+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%220.5%22

After that, we believe, will be a 1.0 release, though it is possible the 
PMC will elect to issue an interim 0.6 release later in the year. 
The focus will change to making the code base stable and 1.0-ready.

NEW MAHOUTS

Apache Mahout added Dmitriy Lyubimov and Shannon Quinn as new committers
in February 2011.

MAHOUT ON THE GO

The community has recorded 12 talks on Mahout since the last release, a
substantial increase in volume and diversity:
https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/books-tutorials-and-talks.html

MAHOUT IN PRINT

The book "Mahout in Action", published by Manning, has been completed and 
will be published in July 2011.

The book "Taming Text", also published by Manning, is also nearing completion
and contains substantial coverage of Mahout and text clustering.