Hi Y'all We talked about this a bit in a community sync a while back and I know a bunch of committers have been working off some of the consensus we reached then but I'm not sure we ever actually documented this.
*1. Should the Apache Iceberg community still maintain a set of Blogs and Talks that are curated on the * *main site by committers and PMC members?* The arguments in favor: The current state requires individuals to make decisions on about inclusion/exclusion of content It is very difficult to maintain and keep up to date There are lots of blog and talk aggregations for Iceberg content out there already The arguments against: Have an easy place for folks to find more Iceberg Content Have a location to post internal announcements ----------- Personally I think we should just drop the blogs site for now with the option of bringing back an Iceberg dev only blog in the future and switch the Talks page to just link out to the official Youtube channel which mostly has entries for Iceberg Summit and our community syncs. ------- *2. Should all vendor/integrations link out to external documentation rather than having in tree maintained* *documentation?* This I think is more straightforward. We have already had a lot of link-rot and Integration documentation falling behind actual integrations. Here I really don't want to break any previous hard links to Iceberg's docs so I think we should leave everything currently in tree, in tree. But for all new contributions and on any updates to a vendor.md or integration.md we should always link out to third party documentation unless we are documenting something that is actually in the Iceberg library (like S3FileIO and friends). Thanks as usual everyone, Russ Here is a PR with my suggested changes for the above two points https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/14110
