Hi all, I have gone through the project's open issues and the earlier [DISCUSS] threads on this list. Based on those, the following six seem like the natural scope for 0.5.0-incubating, each with a tracking issue 1. Hudi table version 9 - https://github.com/apache/incubator-xtable/issues/834 2. Iceberg pluggable table format - https://github.com/apache/incubator-xtable/issues/722 3. Delta Kernel as the default Delta path - https://github.com/apache/incubator-xtable/issues/886 4. xtable-spark-runtime for Hudi 1.x - https://github.com/apache/incubator-xtable/issues/836 5. Cross-format indexing support - https://github.com/apache/incubator-xtable/issues/887 6. AI skills and tooling - https://github.com/apache/incubator-xtable/issues/888
What else should we pick up? If you are working on something you would like in 0.5.0-incubating, please reply here. Timeline. I think we should time-box these releases and fit the scope to the date. If the community agrees, the cutoffs would be: - 0.5.0: 30 September 2026 - 0.6.0: 15 November 2026 - 0.7.0: 5 January 2027 Realistically, some of these may not be ready by the first cutoff. If that happens, my preference would be to hold the date and let the scope move, so anything not quite ready is picked up in the next release a few weeks later. That said, these dates are only a starting point, and we can adjust them if they do not work for the community. Release manager. Stamatis started a thread on rotating the roll, and Vinoth kindly offered to take 0.6.0 or 0.7.0, which leaves 0.5.0 open. Any volunteers for 0.5.0 release manager? Thanks, Vinish
