=== Apache Mahout Status Report: October 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.  Development continues
at a steady pace.



Community
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* 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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The migration to Spark is still ongoing and no new releases are planned at this
time.


Issues
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The community is still actively working on converting the codebase to Scala and
Spark.  The number of devs contributing is still small, but it is sustained.