=== Apache Mahout Status Report: October 2011 ===

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 been moderate during the past 3 months. There were no
new releases, and the 0.6 release process is not yet begun, though 
will likely start within the next 2 months. Judging by Fixed issue 
count, 0.6 is about 60% as far along as previous releases.

A 1.0 release is not yet on the horizon.

MAHOUT DISTRIBUTIONS

It appears that Mahout will be bundled with Cloudera soon.
(https://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/cdh-user/
  browse_thread/thread/5df8c1cb6d39288d?pli=1)

As with other commercial distributions we'll keep an eye out to
make sure it's distributed in accordance with Apache trademark
guidelines.

MAHOUT IN PRINT

Mahout in Action has at last been published.
http://manning.com/owen/