Hi Kevin, I'm open to ideas, but I think we could start with monthly cadence for Spark syncs and increase the frequency if the community feels we need to meet more often. Could you please set up a time on the Iceberg dev calendar?
Thanks, Anurag On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 10:16 AM Anurag Mantripragada < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>
