> On Jul 31, 2024, at 4:02 PM, Tyler Akidau <taki...@apache.org> wrote: > > From project overlap perspective, I just want to echo Jack’s take on things: > Polaris for now is fully focused on Iceberg, taking a depth first approach, > with the goal of implementing the entire Iceberg REST API spec and helping > push forward the state of the art in the Iceberg ecosystem for features like > governance that are highly important for all of our collective user bases. > It’s absolutely adjacent to Gravitino, but as others have said, it feels to > me that they are heading in somewhat different directions overall. I also > think there’s lots of empty space in the open source catalog ecosystem in > general at this point, with plenty of room for both of these efforts to > beneficially exist in parallel. And we are absolutely open to discussing > collaborations, with Gravitino, Amoro, or anyone else; JB has highlighted the > importance of this from the very beginning of our Polaris conversations, and > I completely agree.
It’s worth noting that the ASF has never objected to having multiple projects “competing” in the same general technology space. We don’t pick winners, and we don’t object to overlapping projects. Those questions of how it is like/different from other projects are not disqualifying.
