hi folks, I was very surprised today to learn that the Julia Arrow implementation has continued operating more or less like an independent open source project since the code donation last November:
https://github.com/JuliaData/Arrow.jl/commits/main There may have been a misunderstanding about what was expected to occur after the code donation, but it's problematic for a bunch of reasons (IP lineage / governance / community development) to have work happening on the implementation "outside the community". In any case, what is done is done, so the Arrow PMC's position on this would be roughly to regard the work as a hard fork of what's in Apache Arrow, which given its development activity is more or less inactive [1]. (I had actually thought the project was simply inactive after the code donation) The critical question now is, is there interest from Julia developers in working "in the community", which is to say: * Having development discussions on ASF channels (mailing list, GitHub, JIRA), planning and communicating in the open * Doing all development in ASF GitHub repositories The answer to the question may be "no" (which is okay), but if that's the case, I don't think we should be giving the impression that we have an official Julia implementation that is developed and maintained by the community (and so my argument would be unfortunately to drop the donated code from the project). If the answer is "yes", there needs to be a hard commitment to move development to Apache channels and not look back. We would also need to figure out what to do to document and synchronize the new IP that's been created since the code donation. Thanks, Wes [1]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/commits/master/julia/Arrow
