Hey All, As I mentioned on some other threads, since the start, the goal of the Dremio team was to contribute the Gandiva back into the Arrow project once we made some progress in turning it into something real. I think we're getting close to this point and wanted to have a bit of a discussion about this possible contribution. There are two main questions from my perspective:
1) Does the community feel like this would be a good addition. 2) Will the Gandiva work continue to flourish inside of Arrow. With regards to (1), the announcement email on this list showed some initial positive feedback. How are people feeling these days? Do people think it makes sense for Gandiva to be part of the Arrow project? With regards to (2), there are two main questions. a) How do we make sure the Gandiva team (who are not Arrow committers) get ample support from other committers to make good continued progress. Since they will no longer be able to commit code directly, others will need to stand up and support them. I think several volunteered previously but just want to confirm continued support for this. b) Do the Dremio requirements/expectations for Gandiva match with the Arrow community's preferences? A couple of key requirements we have are to support some older platforms: specifically Windows 7+, Centos 6+ and OSX. I don't think this is incompatible with the existing Arrow stack but I believe it may be lower platform requirements than some other components in Arrow. Is this set of platform targets compatible with the Arrow project? Thoughts?
