Looking at the current Iceberg dev calendar schedule, we have a slot next week Tuesday or Friday for a monthly recurring sync. Wednesday corresponds with the main Community Sync in some weeks. Please let me know the preferred day and time and I can help set it up!
Best, Kevin Liu On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 10:58 AM Anurag Mantripragada < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > I'm open to ideas, but I think we could start with monthly cadence for > Spark syncs and increase the frequency if the community feels we need to > meet more often. Could you please set up a time on the Iceberg dev > calendar? > > Thanks, > Anurag > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 10:16 AM Anurag Mantripragada < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks Anton and Kevin, >> >> I wrote a doc with general themes from the Spark PRs and Issues I browsed >> in the repo. Please feel free to add more if I may have missed anything. >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/19nno1RoPznbbxKOZZddZNHHafa7XULjbN6RPExdr2n4/edit?tab=t.0 >> >> Looking forward to meeting you all and talking about all things Spark! >> >> Thanks, >> Anurag >> >> On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 10:03 AM Kevin Liu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> +1 great idea! >>> Let's start a doc with potential discussion items and find a time on the >>> calendar. I have permission to add events to the "iceberg dev events" >>> calendar. Happy to help with the logistics once the time and cadence is >>> decided. >>> >>> Best, >>> Kevin Liu >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 4:35 PM Anton Okolnychyi <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> YES! I have been meaning to suggest the same. >>>> >>>> Can you start a doc with the pool of items to which everyone can >>>> contribute to? >>>> >>>> - Anton >>>> >>>> ср, 7 січ. 2026 р. о 15:30 Anurag Mantripragada < >>>> [email protected]> пише: >>>> >>>>> Hi folks, happy new year! >>>>> >>>>> (Sorry if I sent this email more than once, my attempts of >>>>> sending this from a different email failed) >>>>> >>>>> There are a few Spark changes the community is working on including >>>>> - Sort order reporting [1], [2] >>>>> - Spark 4.1 support [3] >>>>> - Future of Datafusion-Comet support [4] [5] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Community members interested in the Spark integration have been >>>>> discussing it in smaller groups. However, we believe that the general >>>>> community sync should include all updates, and discussing Spark-specific >>>>> matters may not be the most effective use of that sync. I was wondering if >>>>> it will be useful to create a Spark-Iceberg integration-specific sync on >>>>> the calendar, similar to what we have for individual proposals. This sync >>>>> will not replace the community sync, which will still be used for broader >>>>> discussions including any new spark topics that come out of the spark >>>>> sync. >>>>> >>>>> If there’s interest in doing these spark breakout syncs, I’m happy to >>>>> volunteer to run them. Please let me know what you all think. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> ~ Anurag >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> [1] - https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/14683 >>>>> [2] - https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/14948 >>>>> [3] - https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/14970 >>>>> [4] - https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet/issues/2921 >>>>> [5] - https://lists.apache.org/thread/vr9nsbd5nhg3d20nmtyj4b3zsw9229gd >>>>> >>>>
