Thank you for bringing this up Dominik. I sampled some of the descriptions
for other Apache projects I frequent, the ones with a meaningful
description have a single sentence:
github.com/apache/spark - Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for
large-scale data processing
github.com/apache/beam - Apache Beam is a unified programming model for
Batch and Streaming
github.com/apache/avro - Apache Avro is a data serialization system
Several others (Flink, Hadoop, ...) just have "[Mirror of] Apache <name>"
as the description.
+1 for Nate's suggestion "Apache Arrow is a cross-language development
platform for in-memory data. It enables systems to process and transport
data more efficiently."
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 5:23 AM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's probably best for description to limit mentions of specific
> features. There are some high level features mentioned in the
> description now ("computational libraries and zero-copy streaming
> messaging and interprocess communication"), but now in 2021 since the
> project has grown so much, it could leave people with a limited view
> of what they might find here.
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 12:14 AM Mauricio Vargas
> <mauri...@ursacomputing.com> wrote:
> >
> > How about
> > 'Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory
> data.
> > It enables systems to process and transport data efficiently, providing a
> > simple and fast library for partitioning of large tables'?
> >
> > Sorry the delay, long election day
> >
> > On Sun, May 16, 2021, 2:27 PM Nate Bauernfeind <
> natebauernfe...@deephaven.io>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Suggestion: faster -> more efficiently
> > >
> > > "Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory
> > > data. It enables systems to process and transport data more
> efficiently."
> > >
> > > On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 11:35 AM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Here's what there now:
> > > >
> > > > "Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory
> > > > data. It specifies a standardized language-independent columnar
> memory
> > > > format for flat and hierarchical data, organized for efficient
> > > > analytic operations on modern hardware. It also provides
> computational
> > > > libraries and zero-copy streaming messaging and interprocess
> > > > communication…"
> > > >
> > > > How about something shorter like
> > > >
> > > > "Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory
> > > > data. It enables systems to process and transport data faster."
> > > >
> > > > Suggestions / refinements from others welcome
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 9:12 PM Dominik Moritz <domor...@cmu.edu>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Super minor issue but could someone make the description on GitHub
> > > > shorter?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > GitHub puts the description into the title of the page and makes it
> > > hard
> > > > to find it in URL autocomplete.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
>
