Howdy community, I wrote up some ideas around the unstructured data hackathon that might be fun to work on together: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vwWr3xXpugYYzg8CDTZcDqHF3uVMEplXrKgxkFQzkKY/edit?tab=t.0
See y'all tomorrow! Adam On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 11:37 AM Dmitri Bourlatchkov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adam, > > Thanks for driving the agenda! > > I have four topics so far... all optional depending on community interest. > > 1. Refactoring Auth N/Z code for flexibility with external policy engines > (e.g. OPA) > > 2. Admin Tool usability and future. > 2.1 Preparing for multiple backend (JDBC, Spanner, MongoDB). > 2.2 Separating schema management from default principal / role creation > (related to (1)) > > 3. Secrets Management for Storage Integrations. Recent user interest: > - https://github.com/apache/polaris/issues/2970 > > 4. Efficient (vended) Credentials Cache. > > Recent contributions often hit technical difficulties around the > credentials cache and new use cases are not always efficiently cached. > > Cheers, > Dmitri. > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 11:14 AM Adam Christian < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Howdy folks, > > > > As y'all know, we have a Community Sprint on January 27th [1]. It would > be > > nice to have more preparation on specific topics than last time for this > > sprint. To that end, I wanted to start this thread where people can chime > > in about what they would want to cover and share docs around proposals or > > designs they have been considering. > > > > I'll go first to start us off: > > > > Topic: Unstructured Data Hackathon > > I'd love to do a little hackathon on supporting unstructured data. There > > have been a few proposals to this area (see [2] & [3]). I know that JB is > > doing some initial prototyping on making a joint proposal. I think it > would > > be fun to iterate together as a group on this topic where we are actually > > coding together to make this work in the codebase. > > > > [1] - > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cUg4HnUGDN0JKMr0JWQTaKkgzSXENHZ4VMuyRfJ9oTQ/edit?tab=t.0 > > [2] - > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ofljkrtiXRWc-v6hfkg_laKlYltepTPX7zsg44Tb-BY/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.7ic5c343eju1 > > > > [3] - > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OBDkPbWdf0Bq6Wa_BMKaXn-fqAxfdmepo57ggkkC8mI/edit?tab=t.x0thpmlnrvwt#heading=h.pkppz32ngjzv > > > > Go community, > > > > Adam > > >
