Hi Holden, Thanks for the feedback. These are valid concerns. I will withdraw this vote for now and follow up with a revised proposal that addresses these concerns.
Thanks, Allison On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 12:14 AM Holden Karau <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don’t think is a good idea *yet* > > My core hesitation stems from the fact that it is taking on a bunch of > connectors that the existing committers don’t necessarily have context > around. Historically connectors maintained by the data sources or sink > communities / companies themselves have done better than those inside of an > amalgamation or inside the project. > > I’m not convinced that AI meaningfully changes the problems we’ve seen with > in tree attempts. > > There’s not a very clear “this is our release plan” yet or what the quality > bar would be just that it’s “different.” > > Also looking at the connector package it offers datasources which have their > own existing out of tree Spark version. How would those developer feel / how > is our version better / will this cause user confusion? > > Additionally I’m a little cautious about the “based on” given the direct > databricks reference for comparability in the readme we’d definitely need to > clean that up. > > For those reasons I’m -1 on this iteration of the proposal. > > > Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau > Fight Health Insurance: https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/ > Books (Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, etc.): https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9 > YouTube Live Streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/holdenkarau > Pronouns: she/her > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 5:42 PM Hyukjin Kwon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> +1 >> >> On Fri, 28 Aug 2026 at 03:27, Uroš Bojanić <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> +1 (non-binding) >>> >>> On 2026/08/27 03:36:05 Allison Wang wrote: >>> > Hi all, >>> > >>> > I'd like to open the vote on the proposal to introduce a new Apache Spark >>> > repository for community-contributed Python data sources: >>> > *apache/spark-python-data-sources* based on the existing project >>> > https://github.com/allisonwang-db/pyspark-data-sources >>> > >>> > DISCUSS thread: >>> > https://lists.apache.org/thread/0yqzbr8pzfnfomqq1zdgzcqltnrc6s1o >>> > >>> > The vote is open for at least the next 72 hours. >>> > >>> > [ ] +1: Accept the proposal >>> > [ ] +0 >>> > [ ] -1: I don't think this is a good idea because... >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Allison >>> > >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe e-mail: [email protected] >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe e-mail: [email protected]
