hi folks, With the way things are looking, I think we should aim to have all 0.8.0 work wrapped up by the end of next week, and hopefully be positioned to make a release candidate on Monday Nov 13 or Tuesday Nov 14.
There are still 53 JIRAs in TODO in the release milestone and several in progress https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/ARROW/versions/12341352 It's likely we will have to slightly trim scope as the release nears, but I would like for as much as possible of this work to get done in time, so I will personally be pushing very hard throughout this week and next week. We have quite a lot of loose ends at the moment and many PRs in various states of review. There is also the in-progress Java vector hierarchy refactor. Since the Java refactor is important for downstream users like Spark 2.3.0 it would be great to get this into 0.8.0. Thanks, Wes
