With apologies for the delay. Attendees:
Ian Cook Raúl Cumplido Dewey Dunnington James Duong Todd Farmer Will Jones David Li Rok Mihevc Ivan Ogasawara Ashish Paliwal Niranda Perera Antoine Pitrou Matt Topol Jacob Wujciak Discussion: 9.0.0 release - Vote on RC2 has passed - Post-release tasks are underway - Please contribute to 9.0.0 release blog post[1] Discussions about adding new memory layouts to Arrow [2] - Work is underway to add a run-length encoded layout [3] - There are plans to start work soon on a StringView layout [4] - Several attendees discussed points that have been raised in the discussions above and in comments in the linked documents—in particular the challenges that the StringView layout creates for garbage-collected languages Flight SQL JDBC driver - James and David discussed changes to the JDBC driver and the timeline for moving this work out of the flight-sql-jdbc branch and into the main branch of the apache/arrow repo [5] Build issues with MSVC for Win32 - James has a PR up for this [6] that needs review - David will review it Discussion about the API of the Arrow Java library - The Java library currently does not provide access to Acero - The Java API is provides a lower-level abstraction than PyArrow - The Table object in other Arrow APIs does not map 1:1 onto any one object in the Java API - It would be nice to have more resources explaining these things nanoarrow [7] - Dewey described this Arrow subproject which is focused on making it easier to create Arrow arrays in C code to export them to languages that integrate with the Arrow C APIs - Useful in cases where you need a lightweight way to build Arrow data - Is intended to be vendored or statically linked, never used as a shared library - Is intended to be minimal but easy to extend [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow-site/pull/227 [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/49qzofswg1r5z7zh39pjvd1m2ggz2kdq [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/djy8xn28p264vhj8y5rqbgkgwss6oyo1 [4] https://lists.apache.org/thread/dccj1qrozo88qsxx133kcy308qwfwpfm [5] https://lists.apache.org/thread/om3yt3w6mngdlck3ghhc6m3k4848wfvk [6] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/13532 [7] http://github.com/apache/arrow-nanoarrow On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 6:15 PM Ian Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Our biweekly sync call is tomorrow at 12:00 noon Eastern time. > > The Zoom meeting URL for this and other biweekly Arrow sync calls is: > https://zoom.us/j/87649033008?pwd=SitsRHluQStlREM0TjJVYkRibVZsUT09 > > Alternatively, enter this information into the Zoom website or app to > join the call: > Meeting ID: 876 4903 3008 > Passcode: 958092 > > Thanks, > Ian
