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On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 9:55 PM Will Jones <will.jones...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Curt, > > I think the most visible place for now would be creating an issue for > discussion. > > In the future, if you and some others want to have a place to discuss C# > development, you could create a channel in a chat app. For example, Arrow > Rust has both a Slack channel in the official ASF Slack as well as a > Discord channel [1]. There is also Zuliip, which is used by some of the > C++, Python, and R developers. (Although I can't find where this is > documented anymore. This is still around right?). These kinds of places > aren't great to have the discussion themselves most of the time, but are > useful for when you want to post the issue to get attention to a discussion > and are looking for a targeted audience. > > Best, > > Will Jones > > [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs#arrow-rust-community > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 3:20 PM Curt Hagenlocher <c...@hagenlocher.org> > wrote: > > > I'm curious what other (sub-) communities do about > implementation-specific > > considerations that aren't directly tied to the Arrow standard. I don't > see > > much of that kind of discussion on the dev list; does that mean these > > happen largely in the context of specific pull requests -- or perhaps not > > at all? > > > > My specific motivation for asking is that there are three similar feature > > requests for C#: 23892 <https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/23892>, > > 37359 > > <https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/37359> and 35199 > > <https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/35199>. Looking at these, I was > > thinking that the best general solution would be to have the scalar > arrays > > in C# implement IReadOnlyList<T?> and ICollection<T?>. The former is a > > strictly-better superset of IEnumerable<T?> which also allows indexing by > > position, while the latter is an unfortunate concession to working well > > with "LINQ" (pre-.NET 9). Implementing ICollection<T?> would allow LINQ's > > "ToList" to just work, and work efficiently. > > > > But it feels weird to just submit a PR for this kind of implementation > > decision without more feedback from users or potential users, and at the > > same time it doesn't feel significant enough to e.g. write it up in a > > document to submit for review. I could (and will) open a new issue for > this > > on GitHub, but it doesn't look like anyone proactively looks at new > issues > > to find things to comment on. > > > > So what do others do? > > > > Thanks, > > -Curt > > >
