The current 0.3 goal is good for me. On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > -- Julien
