=== Apache Mahout Status Report: February (missed January) 2015 ===

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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 by a small number of dedicated individuals.  The PMC is reviewing
how we can improve contributions as well as exploring other options to make
sure the project remains viable to the user base.


Community
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* As per the status, the main issue is we have only 2-3 committers who are
contributing on a regular basis.  While they are doing good work, it is 
concerning from a sustainment issue.  We are discussing as a PMC how
to rectify this situation.  The main issue is that developing machine learning
libraries is involved process that is hard to do on a part time basis and
we have yet to find anyone that can be dedicated full time to the project.



Community Objectives
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Identify next steps for either growing the list of active committers or finding an appropriate
home for the code that exists (attic or elsewhere).


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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See above.