hi folks, We've been making excellent progress toward the 0.3 release -- 123 patches in since 0.2, which was released a little over 6 weeks ago.
Here is the JIRA to help track related issues: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-670 Once ARROW-510 (https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/475, thanks Leif!) has been resolved, we'll have all of the date and time types reconciled which was one of the major goals for the release. It would be nice to get the fixed size binary working end to end (ARROW-634), but if that slips to 0.4, I don't think it's a big deal. I know there are a number of other Java patches in flight; I will let others comment on their status. What remains on the C++ and Python side * Decimal patch (ARROW-655) * Some date and time compatibility with pandas * Packaging issues on Linux / OS X, e.g. wheels for pyarrow that can be compiled against / linked to by thirdparties * Windows support for Python * Some miscellanea parquet-cpp integration improvements If all goes well, we may be able to cut an RC next week or the week after. Is there anything else that others would like to see go into the 0.3 release? I think we may be able to make the 0.4 release more quickly (~1 month or less after 0.3) as we finish out some of the additional compatibility issues (dictionaries in IPC stream/file format is a significant one). Thanks Wes
