Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Julian Gilbey Newsgroups: linux.debian.bugs.dist,linux.debian.maint.python,linux.debian.devel Subject: Bug#970021: Seeking a small group to package Apache Arrow (was: Bug#970021: RFP: apache-arrow -- cross-language development platform for in-memory analytics) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 21:30:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-bugs-dist-request@lists.debian.org Sat Mar 30 20:27:12 2024 Old-Return-Path: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.449 Reply-To: Julian Gilbey , 970021@bugs.debian.org Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-Cc: wnpp@debian.org X-Debian-Pr-Message: followup 970021 X-Debian-Pr-Package: wnpp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Debian-Message: from BTS X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1830810 List-ID: List-URL: Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 50 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: debian-science@lists.debian.org, 970021@bugs.debian.org, debian-python@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org X-Original-Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 20:22:35 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <71718a3f86b42248de7cb21abf460b65d56ff61a.camel@ghic.org> <159973208530.29733.12619476555077805477.reportbug@BLN04NB0421> <71718a3f86b42248de7cb21abf460b65d56ff61a.camel@ghic.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.bugs.dist:1192451 linux.debian.maint.python:15689 linux.debian.devel:111085 Hi Diane, On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 11:49:07AM -0700, Diane Trout wrote: > On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 18:17 +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > > > > So this is a plea for anyone looking for something really helpful to > > do: it would be great to have a group of developers finally package > > this!  There was some initial work done (see the RFP bug report for > > details: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970021), > > but that is fairly old now.  As Apache Arrow supports numerous > > languages, it may well benefit from having a group of developers with > > different areas of expertise to build it.  (Or perhaps it would make > > more sense to split the upstream source into a collection of > > different > > Debian source packages for the different supported languages.  I > > don't > > know.)  Unfortunately I don't have the capacity to devote any time to > > it myself. > > > > Thanks in advance for anyone who can step forward for this! > > I've been maintain dask and anndata and saw that apache arrow was > getting increasingly popular. > > I took the current science-team preliminary packaging 7.0.0 packaging > and managed to get it to build through a combination of patches and > turning off features. > > I even mostly managed to get pyarrow to build. (Though some tests fail > due to pytest lazy-fixture being abandoned). > > I pushed my current work in progress to. > > https://salsa.debian.org/diane/arrow.git > > Was anyone else planning on working on it or should I push my updates > to the science-team package? Lovely to hear from you, and oh wow, that's amazing, thank you! I can't speak for anyone else, but I suggest that pushing your updates to the science-team package would be very sensible; it would be silly for someone else to have to redo your work. What more is needed for it to be ready for unstable? Best wishes, Julian