Thanks Anton and Kevin, I wrote a doc with general themes from the Spark PRs and Issues I browsed in the repo. Please feel free to add more if I may have missed anything. https://docs.google.com/document/d/19nno1RoPznbbxKOZZddZNHHafa7XULjbN6RPExdr2n4/edit?tab=t.0
Looking forward to meeting you all and talking about all things Spark! Thanks, Anurag On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 10:03 AM Kevin Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 great idea! > Let's start a doc with potential discussion items and find a time on the > calendar. I have permission to add events to the "iceberg dev events" > calendar. Happy to help with the logistics once the time and cadence is > decided. > > Best, > Kevin Liu > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 4:35 PM Anton Okolnychyi <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> YES! I have been meaning to suggest the same. >> >> Can you start a doc with the pool of items to which everyone can >> contribute to? >> >> - Anton >> >> ср, 7 січ. 2026 р. о 15:30 Anurag Mantripragada < >> [email protected]> пише: >> >>> Hi folks, happy new year! >>> >>> (Sorry if I sent this email more than once, my attempts of sending this >>> from a different email failed) >>> >>> There are a few Spark changes the community is working on including >>> - Sort order reporting [1], [2] >>> - Spark 4.1 support [3] >>> - Future of Datafusion-Comet support [4] [5] >>> >>> >>> Community members interested in the Spark integration have been >>> discussing it in smaller groups. However, we believe that the general >>> community sync should include all updates, and discussing Spark-specific >>> matters may not be the most effective use of that sync. I was wondering if >>> it will be useful to create a Spark-Iceberg integration-specific sync on >>> the calendar, similar to what we have for individual proposals. This sync >>> will not replace the community sync, which will still be used for broader >>> discussions including any new spark topics that come out of the spark sync. >>> >>> If there’s interest in doing these spark breakout syncs, I’m happy to >>> volunteer to run them. Please let me know what you all think. >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> ~ Anurag >>> >>> >>> [1] - https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/14683 >>> [2] - https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/14948 >>> [3] - https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/14970 >>> [4] - https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet/issues/2921 >>> [5] - https://lists.apache.org/thread/vr9nsbd5nhg3d20nmtyj4b3zsw9229gd >>> >>
