Hi Jarek, Your understanding sounds about right to me. That said, we are still building and shipping Plasma for those that have come to depend on it and will continue to do so unless/until it becomes a maintenance burden. But no one active in the Arrow community is working on Plasma.
Neal On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 3:07 AM Jarek Potiuk <pot...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello Arrow Community, > > We've had a very interesting talk at the Apache Airflow Summit about > Airflow + Ray (which is really cool BTW and I am looking forward to > capabilities it will give to Airflow) and we had some discussions that > followed. From what I understand (maybe I am wrong?) the Plasma which was > initially developed in Ray, then contributed to Arrow, and then ( > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r65b2852e4cddb1af8bff06d789bf3822d67777c5dfcd481414acd3d7%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E) > forked (?) by Ray and is kind-of abandoned in Arrow and not really > maintained in Arrow any more (and likely Ray version and Arrow version are > not compatible /exchangeable). > > Is this correct understanding ? Any more comments or maybe explanation > what is the relation between Arrow's Plasma and Ray's Plasma? > > Just to explain my interest - I am a PMC of Apache Airflow, I am an > independent Open-Source contributor and advisor, and I am genuinely > interested in Open-source business models and rationale of stakeholders and > how this plays out with individuals and the ASF/PMC and I wanted to > understand the current state of Plasma :) > > J. > >
