Re: gReetings

2018-03-14 Thread Brian Hulette
If you prefer slack over (or in addition to) the mailing list there's also the Arrow slack. We recently made a #javascript channel there for discussions about that implementation, you could certainly do the same for R. [1] https://apachearrow.slack.com [2] https://apachearrowslackin.herokuapp.

Re: gReetings

2018-03-14 Thread Romain Francois
Sounds great. > Le 14 mars 2018 à 19:03, Aneesh Karve a écrit : > > Hi Romain. Thanks for looking into this. Per discussion with Wes we'll keep > the discussion on ASF channels so the community can participate. > ᐧ

Re: gReetings

2018-03-14 Thread Aneesh Karve
Hi Romain. Thanks for looking into this. Per discussion with Wes we'll keep the discussion on ASF channels so the community can participate. ᐧ

Re: gReetings

2018-03-14 Thread Romain François
That sounds interesting, i am open to join yet another slack team. The way I structure my time these days, I dedicate one day a week to the r arrow front end. Right now this is tuesdays. I have other strong commitment for other open projects on mondays and fridays, and I keep the two other da

Re: gReetings

2018-03-14 Thread Wes McKinney
For more about this, please see the Project Management and Collaboration section in: https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html On Mar 14, 2018 1:30 PM, "Aneesh Karve" wrote: Makes sense. I'll direct interested parties to this list. ᐧ On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Wes McKinney w

Re: gReetings

2018-03-14 Thread Aneesh Karve
Makes sense. I'll direct interested parties to this list. ᐧ On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Wes McKinney wrote: > Hi Aneesh > > I respectfully ask that you keep these discussions on public ASF channels > rather than directing them somewhere private or outside the ASF. We need to > be having a

Re: gReetings

2018-03-14 Thread Wes McKinney
Hi Aneesh I respectfully ask that you keep these discussions on public ASF channels rather than directing them somewhere private or outside the ASF. We need to be having a discussion together as a community about how to move the project forward. Thank you Wes On Mar 14, 2018 1:19 PM, "Aneesh Kar

Re: gReetings

2018-03-14 Thread Aneesh Karve
Hi Romain, I have a list of about ten R developers and users who are interested in Arrow bindings for R, as well as a Slack channel where we can discuss things further. Feel free to email me and I'll connect you. The list arose as we were looking to bring R support to Quilt packages; and we explor

Re: gReetings

2018-03-13 Thread Wes McKinney
> Do I have push rights to the main repo? No -- see the committer / PMC list here: http://arrow.apache.org/committers/. The PMC periodically will add new committers based on their contributions to the project (see https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles). For the time being I wil

Re: gReetings

2018-03-13 Thread Romain François
Hi, « arrow » is fine of course, i only coined « rrrow » for fun but then it kind of grows on me. Do I have push rights to the main repo ? I guess I’ll work at lesst in branches esp now that I’m essentially just playing with the api. Btw, i did stumble into the other python arro last week o

Re: gReetings

2018-03-13 Thread Wes McKinney
hi Romain, welcome! I'm excited to see some progress on an Arrow library for R. Feel free to make pull requests into a new "R/" top-level directory; the work does not need to be polished My vote would be to simply call the R library "arrow" since the real estate seems to exist. The main reason it

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2018-03-13 Thread Romain Francois
Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself here. I’m Romain François, mostly involved in making tools for R. My track record includes being an author of Rcpp and dplyr. I will be working with Wes’s guidance on making an R front end for arrow. Initially that means going through the C++ api and p