That sounds like a good plan. The only governance that the PMC needs to do, in my opinion, is to make sure that the community gets a say in how the money is spent, and that people can participate in these projects (without pay of course) if it makes sense.
> On Oct 13, 2025, at 9:20 AM, Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Julian, > >> Congratulations! There is huge value in fixing the "small things”. >> I know that core maintainers often just “suck it up” and do these things >> in their personal time. >> >> Who decides which work gets done? >> Is there a governance issue that the PMC needs to worry about? > > Thanks for asking. The grant is designed to fund 11 different work packages > (see list at the end of this message). Each work package is defined > sufficiently > broadly that it can adapt to community needs and priorities. Raul and I have > our > own idea of what needs to be done in each work package, but the individual > tasks > can be adapted. > > Our plan is to sollicit the community's input into each work package's > contents, > and to make sure we spend time on the tasks that would bring the most returns > to the community. > > QuantStack has no predefined interests here (we have, separately, clients > who fund specific developments on Arrow, but the STF-funded work is entirely > disjoint). Of course, our involvement will still be guided and constrained by > the limits of our own technological expertise. > > So I would say this is no immediate topic for the PMC. That said, I think it's > generally a good thing for the PMC to worry about the project's sustainability > and its governance equilibrium. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > PS: Summary list of work packages: > > WP1: Improve Release Process > WP2: Improve Continuous Integration > WP3: Improve Fuzz Testing > WP4: Supply Chain Security > WP5: Improve C++ Build System > WP6: Improve modularity of C++ libraries > WP7: Improve Python Build System > WP8: Improve modularity of Python libraries > WP9: Deliver Arrow releases > WP10: Arrow CI operational maintenance > WP11: Community Management > > > Le 09/10/2025 à 22:53, Julian Hyde a écrit : >> Congratulations! There is huge value in fixing the "small things”. I know >> that core maintainers often just “suck it up” and do these things in their >> personal time. >> Who decides which work gets done? >> Is there a governance issue that the PMC needs to worry about? >> Julian >
