I put up the last patches -- once these are merged I can start the RC1
vote tomorrow if no huge issues arise.

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Uwe L. Korn <uw...@xhochy.com> wrote:
> From my side, it also look like everything is ready for a release.
>
> Cheers
> Uwe
>
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017, at 08:38 PM, Wes McKinney wrote:
>> It looks like we are in pretty good shape to release next week. We
>> have a handful of Python / C++ patches in flight, but I'm hopefully
>> we'll be in position to cut the RC1 on Monday or Tuesday.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Uwe L. Korn <uw...@xhochy.com> wrote:
>> > The turbodbc side is fixed, we sadly did some breaking changes:
>> > https://github.com/blue-yonder/turbodbc/pull/138
>> >
>> > It would be nice if we could keep these APIs stable in the next releases
>> > as we get more and more users of them.
>> >
>> > Uwe
>> >
>> > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017, at 01:09 AM, Bryan Cutler wrote:
>> >> Thanks, Wes. The only outstanding issue on the Java side is ARROW-1864
>> >> Upgrading Netty to 4.1.x https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1376.  The
>> >> other issues have been resolved or pushed back.
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 5:08 AM, Tom Augspurger
>> >> <tom.augspurge...@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I've reproduced the dask failures and am looking into them now (it's 
>> >> > around
>> >> > index metadata).
>> >> >
>> >> > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:52 AM, Uwe L. Korn <uw...@xhochy.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > > Hello all,
>> >> > >
>> >> > > I'm just executing the current master locally against turbodbc and 
>> >> > > dask.
>> >> > > Sadly it seems that the unit tests in both projects are breaking. I'm
>> >> > > going to have a look at what happens in both. We should sort out these
>> >> > > problems before the release.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Uwe
>> >> > >
>> >> > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017, at 08:06 PM, Wes McKinney wrote:
>> >> > > > hi folks,
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > I wanted to start a coordination thread to stay on top of the
>> >> > > > remaining items to be able to get to a release-able state for 0.8.0,
>> >> > > > by end of this week or beginning of next week with any luck. There 
>> >> > > > are
>> >> > > > a number of housekeeping items we are working on the C++/Python 
>> >> > > > side,
>> >> > > > but some of these are non-essential, so we'll try to get done as 
>> >> > > > much
>> >> > > > as we can.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Here are the major things that seem to be in flight:
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Format changes
>> >> > > > --------------
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > * ARROW-1785 Removing VectorLayout from metadata
>> >> > > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1297
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Other Java changes
>> >> > > > ------------------
>> >> > > > * ARROW-1864 Upgrading Netty to 4.1.x
>> >> > > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1376
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Other needed C++ changes
>> >> > > > --------------------------
>> >> > > > * ARROW-1882: Restoring DictionaryBuilder
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Changes under discussion
>> >> > > > ------------------------
>> >> > > > * ARROW-1816 Possible change to Timestamp class structure
>> >> > > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1330
>> >> > > > * ARROW-1866 / ARROW-1815 Handling of NonNullableMapVector
>> >> > > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1371
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Other changes in TODO
>> >> > > > ---------------------
>> >> > > > * ARROW-1868: Change vector getMinorType to use MinorType instead of
>> >> > > > Types.MinorType
>> >> > > > * ARROW-1867: Add BitVector APIs from old vector class
>> >> > > > * ARROW-1818: Examine Java Dependencies
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Out of these, the ARROW-1785 VectorLayout removal and the Netty
>> >> > > > upgrade are probably the most critical -- these should be ready to 
>> >> > > > be
>> >> > > > merged once they've been sufficiently reviewed. What else is 
>> >> > > > essential
>> >> > > > / cannot fall through the cracks? If we are not able to arrive at
>> >> > > > consensus on all other items, I would prefer not to delay the 
>> >> > > > release
>> >> > > > any further.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Thanks
>> >> > > > Wes
>> >> > >
>> >> >

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