Connected with Anurag on Slack. I just added a new event to the Iceberg Dev calendar for next week Tuesday Jan 20th from 10AM - 11AM PT, "*Iceberg - Spark Community Sync*". It's a monthly recurring meeting and the google meets link is set to open to the public. Happy to make changes based on feedback.
Best, Kevin Liu On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 10:57 AM Kevin Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>>>> >>>>>
