[SPARK-12301] Remove final from classes in spark.ml trees and ensembles where possible

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: ML
• Target Version/s: 2.0.0
• Assignee: Joseph K. Bradley
• Reporter: Joseph K. Bradley
• Created: 12/Dec/15 03:23
• Updated: 26/Apr/16 21:44
• Resolved: 26/Apr/16 21:44

Description

There have been continuing requests (e.g., SPARK-7131) for allowing users to extend and modify MLlib models and algorithms.

If you are a user who needs these changes, please comment here about what specifically needs to be modified for your use case.

Issue Links

• Is contained by: SPARK-14045 DecisionTree improvement umbrella
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #12711 (jkbradley)