Hello, everyone! As you might be aware, community has been very busy at work on RFC-46 aiming to bring long-awaited cutting edge level of performance to Hudi by avoiding using Avro as an intermediate representation, instead relying on individual engines to host data in their own formats (InternalRow for Spark, RowData for Flink, etc)
We wanted to share an update in terms of where we are and what are the next steps from here: - We're very close to completing the work and are already preparing to be landing complete implementation of the Phase 1 of the RFC-46 currently being developed in a feature branch <https://github.com/apache/hudi/tree/release-feature-rfc46> - To be able to successfully merge the change of such scale, we will have to do a *code freeze* for the master branch barring any changes to land before we're able to merge the feature-branch. - To make sure that this activity doesn't interrupt the 0.12.1 release that is currently in progress we're tentatively planning to schedule this code-freeze *after* successful finalization of the release process with RC branch being cut and validated for release. As of now, provided RC candidate will be cut tomorrow on 09/28 we're aiming to schedule a merge attempt somewhere mid to late next week. - We will follow-up on this thread separately at least *24h* before the scheduled code-freeze with an exact date and time frame for it. Stay tuned. Alexey, on behalf of the RFC-46 group
