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Subject: Re: [VOTE] Code freeze for 0.5 release May 20
From: Grant Ingersoll <gsingers@apache.org>
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Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 15:07:29 -0400
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Sean,

Anything I can do to help prep. an RC?

-Grant

On May 9, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Sebastian Schelter wrote:

> There is an implementation of an algorithm called ALS-WR which was =
developed for the Netflix-Prize. It contains a parallelized matrix =
factorization, but the algorithm itself is iterative which is not a good =
fit for the MapReduce paradigm, so this implementation should be =
considered experimental at best currently.
>=20
> --sebastian
>=20
>=20
> On 09.05.2011 19:26, Sean Owen wrote
>> What you see in trunk now is basically what you'll get.
>> I know Sebastian has done a lot of work on this piece since 0.4, yes,
>> so I imagine the answer is 'yes' it's new and different and perhaps
>> better for your purpose.
>>=20
>> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:03 PM, James =
James<recommendersystem@yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>=20
>>> I was wondering if the new release 0.5 will include the new =
implementation of a
>>> SVD-based recommender? I know there exists an old implementation in =
Mahout, but
>>> it does not really scalable.
>>>=20
>>> Thanks,
>>>=20
>>> James
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Sean Owen<srowen@gmail.com>
>>> To: Mahout Dev List<dev@mahout.apache.org>
>>> Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 4:30:34 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Code freeze for 0.5 release May 20
>>>=20
>>> OK, hearing no objections in a few hours, this will have passed. If
>>> so, only fixes related to 0.5, or test/doc/checkstyle improvements,
>>> from here to release.
>>>=20
>>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Sean Owen<srowen@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> =
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=3Dtrue&jql=
Query=3Dproject+%3D+MAHOUT+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%220.5%22+AND+status+%3D+Res=
olved+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC&mode=3Dhide
>>>> e
>>>>=20
>>>> 127 issues resolved for 0.5, and 6 months since 0.4 was released. =
Yep,
>>>> pretty good time for 0.5.
>>>>=20
>>>> I suggest we enter a code freeze upon passing of this vote. The =
only
>>>> changes will be fixes, more tests, doc improvements. I'll act as
>>>> release engineer then to head up the release (with helping hands =
along
>>>> the way) per https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/how-to-release.html
>>>> targeting a release on May 20.
>>>>=20
>>>> What say?
>>>>=20
>>>> Sean
>>>>=20
>>>=20
>=20

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Grant Ingersoll
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