I created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1262
We have some existing prior work that needs to be collected in the arrow-dist repo. Anyone is welcome to help out with the packaging automation, it would be particularly helpful for Linux package managers - Wes On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 5:36 AM, Antonio Cavallo <antonio.cavallo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > I'm interested in arrow but I never had time to play with it. > I can help with that as I gave some experience in packaging and software > deploy. > best Antonio > > On 24 Jul 2017 17:30, "Wes McKinney" <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yes, definitely. I'll create a packaging / arrow-dist automation >> umbrella JIRA and attach tasks to it >> >> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> > Hey Wes, >> > >> > Does it make sense to create some jiras around this and then maybe some >> > people can pick them up? >> > >> > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> We're accumulating more deployment targets and possible package >> >> artifacts from Arrow releases, such as: >> >> >> >> - Source tarball >> >> - Java JARs >> >> - Python wheels (for pip), 3 platforms >> >> - Python conda packages (for conda), 3 platforms >> >> - .deb/.rpm packages for C++, GLib C >> >> >> >> Doing all of this manually is a lot of work. Also, because many of the >> >> binary artifacts are being built post-release, they are not being >> >> voted on by the PMC and thus are "unofficial" packages. See >> >> http://arrow.apache.org/install/ >> >> >> >> Recently the apache/arrow-dist repo was created as a place where we >> >> can automate package builds, with uploads happening to a cloud bucket >> >> someplace: >> >> >> >> https://github.com/apache/arrow-dist >> >> >> >> Once we've set up the build scripts and various CI services, which >> >> should decide which packages we may want to include as part of a >> >> future release vote. >> >> >> >> Any help with packaging and distribution would be much appreciated. >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Wes >> >> >>
