Hi all, I am very excited and honored to help steer the Arrow Project this year as Arrow PMC Chair.
Something Kou suggested, and the PMC thought would be valuable, is to have a small retrospective about the state of the project and where we want to take it. I would like to try doing so via a “state of the project” type discussion on this mailing list, inspired by an example from Apache Calcite [1]. I welcome any / all comments on the following topics: What things / activities, if any, do you you think the Apache Arrow Community should: 1. Continue 2. Start 3. Stop My thoughts are below. Andrew [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/tx8gw3vxc4kwfzjs6q2gqwgywnsm1zbf Continue: I hope we can continue to encourage and support community growth, focused especially on supporting the sub projects and their leadership. I also would like to continue and grow the outward facing evangelism about the project with blog posts and presentations. Start: Lower the barrier to contributors and accepting those contributions even more, especially for casual contributors. The move to github issues from JIRA I see as one example of lowering this barrier (by reducing the required account maintenance). I would love to see additional improvements in areas like documentation, examples, no-invite-needed chat, etc. Stop: It would be nice to stop (reduce) the reliance on the relatively small number of core contributors for code review. I don’t have any particular insight on how to accomplish this, and suspect we will always have less review capacity than we would like, but it would be nice to encourage the growth.
