+1 for deprecating. I think it would be great if we could find a volunteer to move it into a standalone or contrib repo so it's easy to find rather than removing it from the source tree.
On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > > 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. >
