Attendees: Paul, Padma, Sorabh, Boaz, Sudheesh, Vitalii, Roman, Dave O, Arina, Laurent, Kunal, Zelaine
I had to leave the hangout at 10:30, so my notes only cover the discussion up till then. 1) Variable width decimal support - Dave O Currently Drill only supports fixed width byte array storage of decimals. Dave has submitted a pull request for DRILL-4834 to add support for storing decimals with variable width byte arrays. Eventually, variable width can replace fixed width, but the pull request doesn't cover that. Dave would like someone in the community to review his pull request. 2) 1.9 release - Sudheesh Sudheesh is collecting pull requests for the release. Some have been reviewed and are waiting to be merged. Sudheesh plans to commit a batch this Wed and another this Friday. He's targeting having a release candidate build available next Monday. Laurent asked about Sudheesh's pull request for DRILL-1950. He asked whether thought had been given to supporting newer Drill clients with older Drill servers. Sudheesh indicated that doing this would entail a breaking change in the protocol, and the plan was to defer doing this for a later release where we may want to make other breaking changes like this.
