+1
> On Jul 20, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Bryan Cutler <cutl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +1 sounds great!
>
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> The Plasma Object Store provides a server process, reference C++ client,
>> and
>> Python binding for managing a collection of binary "objects" in POSIX
>> shared
>> memory. Applications use a lightweight messaging protocol to create and
>> delete
>> memory blocks in the object store, evict objects to make room for new
>> objects,
>> and increment and decrement reference counts to indicate shared ownership
>> of
>> memory. It also provides for subscribing to notifications about object
>> activity. The system helps simplify ownership transfer and memory lifetime
>> of
>> shared memory blocks, which can be much more complicated in a peer-to-peer
>> architecture.
>>
>> The object store has been used in conjunction with the Apache Arrow
>> libraries
>> to provide for zero-copy access to collections of large objects stored in
>> shared memory. Incorporating this project into Apache Arrow will help the
>> community continue to develop and innovate technology for low-overhead
>> sharing
>> of complex datasets across multiple processes.
>>
>> Plasma Object Store was developed by the Ray project with the UC Berkeley
>> RISELab. There have been 8 contributors, with about 3.1 KLOC of C++ code
>> and an
>> additional 5.1 KLOC of thirdparty C and C++ code which we have reviewed for
>> compatibility with the Apache Software Foundation's policies on license
>> compatibility.
>>
>> This code was split off from the Ray project from commit id
>> `b94b4a35e04d8d2c0af4420518a4e9a94c1c9b9f` [1] and modified by the
>> authors for
>> inclusion in Apache Arrow in a GitHub pull request [2]. This code has been
>> staged in a separate repository for review by the community and ASF IP
>> Clearance:
>>
>> - https://github.com/ray-project/arrow-plasma-object-store/tree/
>> 11795753b0850cf5ad50d640067a8517ad8629a2#diff-
>> 69e56fcedf1b794992b790684902dcd4
>>
>> This vote is to determine whether the Arrow PMC is in favor of accepting
>> the
>> code contribution. If the vote passes, the PMC and the authors of the code
>> will
>> work together to complete the ASF IP Clearance process and import the
>> Plasma
>> Object Store into Apache Arrow for inclusion in a future release:
>>
>> [ ] +1 : Accept contribution of Plasma Object Store
>> [ ] 0 : No opinion
>> [ ] -1 : Reject contribution because...
>>
>> The vote is open for 72 hours and will close at 18:15 UTC on Sunday 23 July
>> 2017 and the results will be announced on this list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Wes
>>
>> [1]: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/commit/
>> b94b4a35e04d8d2c0af4420518a4e9a94c1c9b9f
>> [2]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/742
>>
