I agree with this also -- it was perhaps aspirational to see if more contributors around the idea of Arrow-accelerated file systems would come out of the woodwork but at this point it would probably make sense for this to spin off into a separate project (either within the Apache umbrella if there is community interest or as a community / contrib project).
On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM Jacob Wujciak <assignu...@apache.org> wrote: > +1 better to deprecate and remove it than have it bit rot along. As > Aldrin says, we can always revive it if the bandwidth and interest is > there. > > Am Mo., 5. Mai 2025 um 15:33 Uhr schrieb Aldrin <octalene....@pm.me.invalid > >: > > > > I think deprecating is a good idea. I haven't had time to try and > maintain it and I'm doubtful the original author is following any of the > communications. > > > > If I get around to picking up [1], then I can see about "reviving" > skyhook, but in that case the component will look very different anyways. > > > > [1]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/40583 > > > > > > Sent from Proton Mail for iOS > > > > > > On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 01:13, Raúl Cumplido <rau...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > I am in favour of deprecating it. > > > > We already discussed deprecating it in February when the job was failing > on > > this PR comment section [1]. > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/45538 > > > > El lun, 5 may 2025 a las 10:05, Antoine Pitrou (<anto...@python.org>) > > escribió: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > "Skyhook" is a little-known C++ component that interfaces Arrow with > the > > > Ceph distributed filesystem. It received it last non-trivial change in > > > 2022: > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/commit/546c3771a209cbcac5e03cf26e07bcd8c9601d5a > > > > > > You won't find much documentation for it except for an example and some > > > API docs: > > > https://arrow.apache.org/docs/search.html?q=skyhook > > > > > > Most Google search results point to the 2022 paper that presents the > > > original work: > > > https://www.google.com/search?q=%22arrow%22+%22skyhook%22 > > > > > > A C++ code search only brings Arrow C++ itself (there are unrelated C++ > > > projects that use the word "skyhook"): > > > https://grep.app/search?f.lang.pattern=c%2B%2B&words=true&q=skyhook > > > > > > Should we deprecate the Skyhook component and remove it in a release or > > > two? > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Antoine. > > > > > > >
