hi folks,
It's been quite a lot of work the last few years building the Apache
Arrow project and community until this point. I began working on some
flavor of an Arrow-like project in early 2015, later merging with the
efforts of folks from Apache {Drill, Calcite, Kudu, Impala, Spark,
...} and other OSS projects and the rest is now history.
I am definitely in need of an extended vacation from day-to-day
maintenance and development; truthfully I have not been writing as
many patches as usual this year so far due to how overwhelming the
activity level and deluge of user feedback (bug reports, StackOverflow
questions, etc.) has been.
I'm going to try to review the most important pending PRs (out of the
40 open right now) over the next few days, but I plan to be mostly
absent from day-to-day maintainer work until May.
If you need my attention on something time sensitive related to
development, I'm happy to be available -- please reach out to me
directly. I will still be available for time-sensitive PMC-related
activities also. I'm giving some talks about Arrow over the next 6
weeks, so I'll be working for the interests of the project in other
ways, just less active on GitHub and JIRA.
I want to reiterate how important packaging / release automation and
nightly integration testing (being discussed in a separate thread
right now) are to the current and future health of the project. I hope
we can develop a scalable solution to this problem within the next
couple of months.
Thanks,
Wes
