Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-lucene-mahout-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 63048 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2010 01:21:24 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 18 Jan 2010 01:21:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 33306 invoked by uid 500); 18 Jan 2010 01:21:24 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-lucene-mahout-dev-archive@lucene.apache.org Received: (qmail 33243 invoked by uid 500); 18 Jan 2010 01:21:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact mahout-dev-help@lucene.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: mahout-dev@lucene.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list mahout-dev@lucene.apache.org Received: (qmail 33230 invoked by uid 99); 18 Jan 2010 01:21:24 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:21:24 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of bimargulies@gmail.com designates 209.85.219.225 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.219.225] (HELO mail-ew0-f225.google.com) (209.85.219.225) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:21:17 +0000 Received: by ewy25 with SMTP id 25so42470ewy.5 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:20:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=fjGGiS7BubbNMn/Er1k6n9QAZyf0K0BkWnheN+yApUA=; b=jLnSoeYA/x+PcCBOKdGRHRl2fjAMpACU7+LCO5aQVbKeeYW8mujDSaYwfW5izUY5Kx R4iImMLg+dGm/a31Z1ux9zCJ7Oz1dEx/fE3hdsn+tUrx9gXdKDw3I1700VYIqM48MXwh v+PM9gliQqFisHf2JnMsd9c5ywGCHTa8b38P8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=PMaibzqW5gV24sK7rZLa5xhvYNLXofp8LjdKxuSBHJT8lnngfs8cQue4XNqZSuYg1l k4OmsFRZ4uerTyo3/lL0Wk9xHGd7bdP/G5XfI+huo4WHBHnNRE/lupgywcjFQaz0WxXo +atCFF18lmFs3Nq1Zn6RHSbvLPeO13A6TvN1I= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.89.11 with SMTP id b11mr1776385wef.171.1263777656166; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:20:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:20:56 -0500 Message-ID: <61b5d9411001171720q76524c9aud053555ff5d1a292@mail.gmail.com> Subject: ]math[ please look at MAHOUT-256 From: Benson Margulies To: mahout-dev@lucene.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I think that other eyeballs should be applied, however briefly and painfully, to MAHOUT-256. In addition, I propose to REMOVE the ObjectFactory{1,2,3}D classes. No one uses them, and they would require significant API surgery to be genric-cleaned. Since they have protected constructors and no static methods, it seems reasonable to apply the surgeon's motto as previously discussed.