The vote passes with 7 binding, 6 non-binding +1 votes. Thanks all! I will separate the PR into multiple PRs and address the comments on the implementation.
Binding: Dewey Dunnington, Joris Van den Bossche, Matt Topol, Micah Kornfield, Raúl Cumplido, Sutou Kouhei, Weston Pace Non-binding: Dane Pitkin, Gang Wu, Ian Cook, Jacob Wujciak-Jens, Joel Lubinitsky, wish maple On Thu, Jul 25, 2024, at 07:55, Micah Kornfield wrote: > +1 (binding) > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 2:19 PM Sutou Kouhei <k...@clear-code.com> wrote: > >> +1 (binding) >> >> In <8ce8b9a4-ae7a-41eb-ab6e-a5ceb2258...@app.fastmail.com> >> "[VOTE][Format] Opaque canonical extension type" on Wed, 24 Jul 2024 >> 14:33:01 +0900, >> "David Li" <lidav...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > I'd like to propose the 'Opaque' canonical extension type. Prior >> discussion can be found at [1] and the proposal and implementations for >> C++, Go, Java, and Python can be found at [2]. The proposal is additionally >> reproduced below. >> > >> > The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. >> > >> > [ ] +1 Accept this proposal >> > [ ] +0 >> > [ ] -1 Do not accept this proposal because... >> > >> > [1]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/8d5ldl5cb7mms21rd15lhpfrv4j9no4n >> > [2]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/41823 >> > >> > --- >> > >> > Opaque represents a type that an Arrow-based system received from an >> external >> > (often non-Arrow) system, but that it cannot interpret. In this case, >> it can >> > pass on Opaque to its clients to at least show that a field exists and >> > preserve metadata about the type from the other system. >> > >> > Extension parameters: >> > >> > * Extension name: ``arrow.opaque``. >> > >> > * The storage type of this extension is any type. If there is no >> underlying >> > data, the storage type should be Null. >> > >> > * Extension type parameters: >> > >> > * **type_name** = the name of the unknown type in the external system. >> > * **vendor_name** = the name of the external system. >> > >> > * Description of the serialization: >> > >> > A valid JSON object containing the parameters as fields. In the >> future, >> > additional fields may be added, but all fields current and future are >> never >> > required to interpret the array. >> > >> > Developers **should not** attempt to enable public semantic >> interoperability >> > of Opaque by canonicalizing specific values of these parameters. >>
