Grumble about (lack of) warning of deprecation of Canopy KMeans

I was taken aback that the immensely touted and convenient Canopy
KMeans package was today deprecated [1] in the incubating mahout 1.0
with no hint that I could find warned in this, at least back through
March. And even then I can see only in retrospect that a suggestion
lurked in [2] that Streaming KMeans is preferable. I only saw this
when, in tinkering with my apparently successful use of CanopyDriver,
I ended up in the JavaDoc from the SVN repo, which is where a public
document [3] directs developers.

At the very least, [4] should begin with a deprecation warning (I
commented Jira MAHOUT-1513 to this effect). Also, perhaps [3] should
point to the most released JavaDoc rather than the SVN trunk.

Apologies for the grumble if in fact I missed a warning posted here
and I redirect my grumble at myself.

Bob

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1513
[2] http://mail-archives.us.apache.org/mod_mbox/mahout-user/201403.mbox/%3C1394662437.49533.YahooMailNeo%40web163502.mail.gq1.yahoo.com%3E
[3] https://mahout.apache.org/developers/developer-resources.html
[4] http://mahout.apache.org/users/clustering/canopy-clustering.html
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