Re: [External] Gigantic list of Avro spec issues

2022-02-15 Thread Shannon Carey
I am not an Avro expert, but here are some thoughts: In general, I think you should submit a PR or PRs to suggest improvements, unless you are unsure what change should be made. That seems more productive than a list of things that you think are "stupid". Another possibility would be putting to

Re: Gigantic list of Avro spec issues

2022-02-15 Thread Adam Bellemare
Hi Askar This is certainly an extensive list. I wanted to email you just to let you know that *someone* has seen it. Though I can't speak to all of it, I do have a few of my own impressions: > How it is happened that such good format has so bad spec? How it is happened that *best* format for this

Gigantic list of Avro spec issues

2022-02-12 Thread Askar Safin
Hi. I'm writing my own Avro implementation in Rust for personal use. During this work I found a lot of issues in Avro spec (the list follows). I send this mail not only to user and dev mailing lists of Avro, but also to Apache community list, Kafka list and 3 semi-randomly chosen Materialize e