On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 03:32:24PM -0800, Dmitriy Lyubimov wrote: > Isabel, if i understand it correctly, you are asking whether it makes sense > add end2end scenarios based on Samsara to current codebase?
Sorry for being fuzzy. The meta question that I'm trying to find an answer for is if there's something can/ should be done to increase the number of people that potentially could be assimilated and turned into committers one day. One specific idea I had on my mind was to make the project easier to use for beginners, one idea to get that accomplished I had was to focus on end to end implementations of popular use cases. (Sorry, fairly meta...) > The answer is, absolutely. Yes it does for both rather isolated issues > (like computing clusters) and end-2-end scenarios. > > The only problem with end 2 end scenarious is they often difficult to > demonstrate with batch-oriented coputational system only. That's what > prediction.io kind of picked on with COO, they included all of data > ingestion, computation and real time scoring queries. > > But yes, there's, absolutely, tons of value in that. Not everything fits > quite nicely, and not everything fits end-2-end (just like with R), but > some fairly significant pieces do fit to be written on top. Makes sense. > > Where do we start? ;) > > > > I would start with figuring a problem I want to solve AND I have a budget > to do it AND i can legally contribute on behalf of the IP owner. I guess given the meta explanation above - if increase in contributions was a goal one could also think about making potential areas of contribution explicit and highlight the value the project brings compared to other systems with a specific focus on samsara. That's another angle of me asking weird questions here. > Then we can think of whether it is a good fit (Samsara is mostly limited to > tensor based data only, just like Mapreduce DRM was/is). Some things may > not have a convenient algebraic formulation. +1 Isabel -- Sorry for any typos: Mail was typed in vim, written in mutt, via ssh (most likely involving some kind of mobile connection only.)
