> > I suggest we respect Jorge's decision and give him more time/space. > Considering he spent 6 months last year trying to donate arrow2 to ASF > and couldn't get it through,
Of course, I apologize if I wasn't being respectful. However, this is the first I'm hearing, and I would guess others on the list,are hearing that it was a 6 month effort to try to get it donated and it failed (the only reference I could find in [1][2] which looks like people agreed). Is there any background reading for what went wrong?. If this was due to something on the ASF side it seems like we should be escalating to the board as an issue. If there are other blockers it would be good to understand them. Without understanding the issues I don't see how it would be any less effort on another attempt and I wouldn't realistically expect anyone to go through it again. In other words, this would seem to nullify the hypothesis that arrow2 would eventually get donated unless there are ways to mitigate the issues that came up the first time around. Hopefully, also if the community understood the issues it could help out so Jorge would not need to carry the entire load himself. To repeat, I think it is OK if arrow2 does not get donated but having transparency is important. trust him to make > decisions that will best push the project forward on a technical > front. Definitely. agree here. [1] https://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/arrow-rust-experimental-arrow.html [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow-experimental-rs-arrow2/pull/1
