Thanks Rok for driving this and ZhengYu Xu for providing the original pyarrow-stubs!
El sáb, 16 may 2026 a las 9:55, Rok Mihevc (<[email protected]>) escribió: > > A short follow-up to this vote. > Software grant for pyarrow-stubs has been formally filed with the Apache > secretary and published [1]. I believe this concludes the process. > > Thanks all! > > Rok > > [1] https://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/arrow-pyarrow-stubs-library > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Sounds great to me, and really thanks to ZhengYu Xu for doing the > > original hard work! > > > > Regards > > > > Antoine. > > > > > > Le 07/04/2026 à 19:21, Rok Mihevc a écrit : > > > Hello, > > > > > > I would like to propose donating the pyarrow-stubs codebase [1] to the > > > Apache Arrow project and gather any comments at this stage. > > > > > > As you may know, pyarrow-stubs is an independently maintained library of > > > PEP 484 type stub annotations for PyArrow. I have been working on > > > contributing a refactored version of these stubs into the Arrow > > repository > > > [2][3], and before merging the actual annotation PRs I would like to > > > formally donate the original codebase so that the IP situation is clean. > > > The author, ZhengYu Xu (zen-xu), has already agreed to donate the > > codebase > > > and has filed a Software Grant Agreement with the ASF as per the IP > > > clearance process here [4]. > > > > > > Here is the rationale: > > > > > > 1. Type annotations are increasingly expected by the Python community and > > > are directly useful to the large number of PyArrow downstream users. > > > 2. Maintaining stubs as part of Apache Arrow ensures they stay in sync > > with > > > the library and are governed by the same community that maintains > > PyArrow. > > > 3. The clear governance of Apache Arrow offers the best foundation for > > the > > > long-term maintenance and evolution of the stubs. > > > > > > I would also like to take this opportunity to thank ZhengYu Xu (zen-xu > > [5]) > > > for creating and maintaining pyarrow-stubs over the years. It has been an > > > invaluable resource for the PyArrow community and an excellent foundation > > > for this work. > > > > > > As the technical details have already been discussed elsewhere [2][3], I > > > plan to start the required vote in a few days. > > > > > > Please let us know your thoughts. > > > > > > Rok > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/zen-xu/pyarrow-stubs > > > [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow/discussions/45919 > > > [3] https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/32609 > > > [4] https://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/ > > > [5] https://github.com/zen-xu > > > > > > >
