Hello Michael, > 1. Is this a welcome change, or should we just carry patches locally?
These changes would be very welcome. The current vendoring approach exists for all dependencies mostly to get have a smooth development experience. It is not meant for releases. The current approach for ORC is mainly in this form as there are things missing to get to a smooth, non-vendored released binary. > 2. Assuming change is welcome, what is the preferred method for submitting > changes? Github PR(s)? As mentioned above, they are very welcome. The preferred method is creating an issue in JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/ARROW and then opening a PR on github. The name of the PR should be prefixed with the issue. e.g. `ARROW-XXX: [Python] Better ORC packaging` Uwe
