+1

On Sun, 27 Jun 2021, 07:40 Jorge Cardoso Leitão, <jorgecarlei...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to bring to this mailing list a proposal to donate the source
> code of arrow2 [1] and parquet2 [2] as experimental repositories [3] within
> Apache Arrow, conditional on IP clearance.
>
> The specific PRs are:
>
> * https://github.com/apache/arrow-experimental-rs-arrow2/pull/1
> * https://github.com/apache/arrow-experimental-rs-parquet2/pull/1
>
> The source code contains rewrites of the arrow and parquet crates with
> safety and security in mind. In particular,
>
> * no buffer transmutes
> * no unsafe APIs marked as safe
> * parquet's implementation is unsafe free
>
> There are many other important features, such as big endian support and IPC
> 2.0 support. There is one regression over latest: support nested types in
> parquet read and write. I observe no negative impact on performance.
>
> See a longer discussion in [4] over the reasons why the current rust
> implementation is susceptible to safety violations. In particular, many
> core APIs of the crate are considered security vulnerabilities under
> RustSec's [5] definitions, and are difficult to address on its current
> design.
>
> I validated that it is possible to migrate DataFusion [6] and Polars [7]
> without further code changes.
>
> The vote will be open for at least 72 hours.
>
> [ ] +1 Accept the code donation as experimental repos.
> [ ] +0
> [ ] -1 Do not accept the code donation as experimental repos because...
>
> [1]
>
> https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/docs/source/developers/experimental_repos.rst
> [2] https://github.com/jorgecarleitao/arrow2
> [3] https://github.com/jorgecarleitao/parquet2
> [4] https://github.com/jorgecarleitao/arrow2#faq
> [5] https://rustsec.org/
> [6] https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/68
> [7] https://github.com/pola-rs/polars
>

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