+1 (non-binding) On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM Amogh Jahagirdar <amo...@apache.org> wrote:
> +1 (non-binding) > > On 2025/08/20 18:25:19 Aihua Xu wrote: > > Hi community, > > > > I’d like to follow up on our community sync to proceed with finalizing > the > > variant spec. > > > > Per the Parquet specification requirements, two reference implementations > > are needed to finalize the Variant logical type. Both Java and Go > > implementations now support variant encoding and shredding. > > > > Java already has the encoding and shredding implementations in place: > > apache/parquet-java#3197 < > https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3197> > > apache/parquet-java#3202 < > https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3202> > > apache/parquet-java#3223 > > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/issues/3223> > > apache/parquet-java#3211 > > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/issues/3211> > > > > Go also includes encoding and shredding support: > > apache/arrow-go#344 <https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/pull/344> > > apache/arrow-go#434 <https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/pull/434> > > > > In addition, we have also completed cross-language validations between > the > > Java and Go implementations (PR#3258 > > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3258> and PR#455 > > <https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/pull/455>) to confirm compatibility > and > > make sure that the specs can be interpreted consistently. Rust has also > > validated against the Variant test suites in PR#8104 > > <https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8104>. > > > > Given this progress, I propose that we remove the "under development" > notes > > from the documentation and move forward with finalizing the > specifications (PR > > #509 <https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/509>). > > This vote will be open for at least 72 hours. > > > > [ ] +1 Finalize Varint and Shredding Spec > > [ ] +0 > > [ ] -1 Do not release this because... > > >
