=== Apache Mahout Status Report: July 2014 ===

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Apache Mahout has implementations of a wide range of machine learning and
data mining algorithms: clustering, classification, collaborative filtering
and frequent pattern mining

Project Status
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The project continues to have a large and active user base.  While
the developer base has continued to grow, there is a very active
and healthy debate going on about where Mahout goes next.  We have
worked through many of these issues, but are not out of the proverbial
woods just yet.



Community
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* Andrew Palumbo and Pat Ferrel are new committers
* Dmitriy Lyubimov has resigned from the PMC

* The main issue concerning the community right now is the addition
of new contributions from 0xData and the integration of Mahout with Scala/Spark.



Community Objectives
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Our goal is to build scalable machine learning libraries. See the Issues
section below for the debate in the community about our objectives.


Releases
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In addition to an ongoing debate on Mahout's future, the community is actively
 working on integrating Mahout with Scala/Spark,  and bringing in new code and
 committers to update the core project.


Issues
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For the most part, the community has gotten back to work by adding a couple of new
committers and pursuing the path of Scala support.  While there is still not
a huge developer base, people are contributing and working through the issues.