Just to add some context: as far as I know, the owner of the iceberg-rust crate was involved in the early development of the project. I believe some code was also ported from that repo in the early stages. I recall there were some discussions on Slack back in 2023 around naming — both the repo and the crate — and transferring ownership of the iceberg-rust crate was one of the options that came up at the time.
> On Jun 4, 2025, at 6:18 PM, Kevin Liu <kevinjq...@apache.org> wrote: > > Great idea Denny! Personally, I'd like to see a unified effort on the rust > implementation for iceberg. > > I'll reach out to the author on Slack. Can you include you in the > conversation? Happy to include anyone else interested too. > > I'll update this thread again once we get some updates. > > Best, > Kevin Liu > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM Denny Lee <denny.g....@gmail.com > <mailto:denny.g....@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Hey Kevin, >> >> Prior to PMC private mailing / ASF trademark, perhaps we can start a >> conversation with the iceberg-rust <https://github.com/JanKaul/iceberg-rust> >> crate folks? >> >> It looks like the project is active and perhaps we can discuss with them the >> goals to figure out the best way to leverage each others' work while also >> ensuring folks know the difference between projects (which may require >> renaming). I've had this happen to a number of other Rust and Python-based >> projects due to the excitement and faster code development cycles. >> >> WDYT? >> Denny >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM Kevin Liu <kevinjq...@apache.org >> <mailto:kevinjq...@apache.org>> wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I was working on the iceberg-rust 0.5.1 release and noticed a few crates on >>> crates.io <http://crates.io/> that seem to be unofficial implementations or >>> releases of iceberg-rust. >>> >>> For example, the official Apache iceberg-rust repo is published under the ` >>> <https://crates.io/crates/iceberg>iceberg` >>> <https://crates.io/crates/iceberg> crate. But there’s also a crate called ` >>> <https://crates.io/crates/iceberg-rust>iceberg-rust` >>> <https://crates.io/crates/iceberg-rust> that points to a different repo >>> outside the Apache org. >>> There are a few other crates following a similar pattern. >>> >>> I want to start this thread to raise awareness of the issue and figure out >>> the appropriate path for trademark usage. Let me know if I should forward >>> this to the PMC private mailing list and/or the apache trademark email. >>> >>> Best, >>> Kevin Liu
