=== Apache Mahout Status Report: January 2011 ===

ISSUES

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

CURRENT ACTIVITY

Apache Mahout released version 0.4 on October 31, 2010. 0.4 included changes 
related to 153 issues, summarized here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT/fixforversion/12314396

It continues to change significantly and across the board, though a certain
consistent scope and identity is confirming itself at this stage. It is
a Java-based scalabe data mining library that currently has much of its
implementation based on Apache Hadoop 0.20.x. It currently covers, primarily,
collaborative filtering, clustering, classification, frequent itemset mining,
and some related and supporting algorithms.

The project expects to continue with an 0.5 release around May 2011.
The 57 issues to date that are resolved or are being worked on for 0.5 are:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?pid=12310751
  &fixfor=12315255

After that, we believe, will be a 1.0 release. From 0.5, the focus will 
change to making the code base stable and 1.0-ready.


MAHOUT IN ACTION

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