Housing longer-term Arrow development, design, and roadmap documents

2018-06-23 Thread Wes McKinney
hi folks, Since the scope of Apache Arrow has grown significantly in the last 2.5 years to encompass many programming languages and new areas of functionality, I'd like to discuss how we could better accommodate longer-term asynchronous discussions and stay organized about the development roadmap.

[DISCUSS] Developing a standard memory layout for in-memory records / "row-oriented" data

2018-06-23 Thread Wes McKinney
hi folks, Some time ago I opened ARROW-1790 based on some discussions I'd had with users on mailing list or in person about how to deal with data similar to a C array of struct types. Indeed, while we have Structs in the Arrow columnar format, our structs are "fully shredded" columnar structs. Ma

Re: Gandiva Initiative

2018-06-23 Thread Jacques Nadeau
> > I'd be willing to carve out some extra time to make sure patches are > getting > merged promptly until Ravindra or others become committers. > Thanks! > I think the fact that Philipp incorporated Gandiva into the Arrow > codebase and built Python bindings in less than 24 hours is a pretty >

[jira] [Created] (ARROW-2733) [GLib] Cast garrow_decimal128 to gint64

2018-06-23 Thread yosuke shiro (JIRA)
yosuke shiro created ARROW-2733: --- Summary: [GLib] Cast garrow_decimal128 to gint64 Key: ARROW-2733 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2733 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Improv

[jira] [Created] (ARROW-2732) Update brew packages for macOS

2018-06-23 Thread Manabu Ejima (JIRA)
Manabu Ejima created ARROW-2732: --- Summary: Update brew packages for macOS Key: ARROW-2732 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2732 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Improvement