> > You would just end up backporting twice.
That's why I said a community maintained branch benefits us, saving one backport. Note the first backport is more difficult, sometimes requiring rewriting the PR since there would be API differences between Spark versions. The second backport will be much easier if we focus on bug fixes. Meanwhile, it's also easier for us to upgrade to Iceberg 1.2+ if 3.1 support is still available although deprecated.
