I agree, Jorge's point of view (and anyone else who has contributed to arrow2) is important here.
One thing that isn't exactly clear to me from the linked issue is how much interest there is in the community for maintaining arrow-rs? How much is a donation of arrow2 a factor here? Also, the last time we discussed this on the mailing list I think things got contentious. Just a reminder please communicate with care. [1] has some good advice on this. Thanks, Micah [1] https://community.apache.org/contributors/etiquette On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 6:51 PM QP Hou <houqp....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Wes, > > I believe what you mentioned is the plan, i.e. move arrow2 to ASF in > the long run when it stabalize on its design/API and could benefit > from a more rigorous release process. From what I have seen, the > project is still undergoing major API changes on a monthly basis, so > quick releases and fast user feedback is quite valuable. But let's > hear Jorge's point of view on this first. > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 2:42 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Is there a possibility of donating arrow2 to the Arrow project (at > > some point)? The main impact to development would be holding votes on > > releases, but this is probably a good thing long term from a > > governance standpoint. The answer may be "not right now" and that's > > fine. Having many of the same people split across projects with > > different governance structures is less than ideal. > > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 1:15 PM Andrew Lamb <al...@influxdata.com> > wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I wanted to draw your attention to two issues of significance to the > Rust > > > Arrow implementations > > > > > > Discussion for switching DataFusion to use arrow2: > > > https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/1532 > > > > > > Discussion for what to do with arrow if DataFusion switches to use > arrow2: > > > https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/1176 > > > > > > The second is likely the most pertinent to people on this mailing > list, but > > > the first is the reason why the second has become important. > > > > > > Andrew >
