I think it's an excellent idea to have a face-to-face video meeting with the larger community on this mailing list. It might not be convenient to have a regular schedule due to time zone constraints, but a one-off to say "hi", introduce each other, and have a discussion would be helpful. I can start a thread to see who's in which TZ and to find a good time.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 5:53 PM Quanlong Huang <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for my words that may make you uncomfortable... Yes, I mean in-person > because it's more efficient. I thought you have many discussions and > meetings about the design, roadmap or planning. But different time zones > are really an obstacle. Having discussions face to face is not quite > realistic. > > Maybe we can start another thread to discuss the interaction of the Impala > community, e.g. regular meetings (via Slack or WeChat), roadmap and > planning discussion, etc. > > Thanks for all your efforts to make the community grow! > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 6:07 AM Jim Apple <[email protected]> wrote: > > > "As a community developer, I can't discuss with you Cloudera folks in > > real." > > > > Do you mean in-person? Because if you mean "real", we want to strive to > > have [email protected] be very real. In particular, I and others I > > work > > with at Cloudera, often in the same building, have discussions (that we > > could have in person) here on dev@ instead in order to do community work > > in > > the open. > > > > Some other communities, like Parquet, will have regularly scheduled > > face-to-face meetings over videoconferencing. Time zones are hard, of > > course, but this is something we could try if someone wants to take > charge > > of organizing it, recruiting people to come, sending out notes, etc. > > > > In the meantime, let's all work to make dev@ and gerrit great places to > > have productive discussions. > > > > Thanks for making the google doc, BTW: I think that's really helpful for > > large and complex patches. > > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 7:28 AM Quanlong Huang <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm excited that we can support reading ORC complex types (IMPALA-6503) > > > now! > > > > > > I just finish the patch. As a community developer, I can't discuss with > > you > > > Cloudera folks in real. It may be hard to make codes clear via comments > > for > > > a big patch, so I wrote a doc about the implementation: > > > > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Gzcge57VUOQ0ZQWfWiIW9cUix8_FumMewl0Gja3ZA4 > > > (I may need to add more details, please let me know) > > > > > > Patch link: https://gerrit.cloudera.org/#/c/12168/ > > > Have passed pre-review-test: > > > https://jenkins.impala.io/job/pre-review-test/269/ > > > > > > Hopes you can take some time to review it. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > Quanlong > > > > > >
