Thanks for the summary! Smart move to have an experimental repository. Do you release the works-in-progress there? Rephrased: how do people try them out? Do they have to clone & build?
Kenn On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 10:52 AM leerho <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > This is a brief summary of our Science meeting of February 4th. > > Most of the discussion revolved around theoretical approaches for a > relative-error quantiles sketch. There is certainly user interest in such > a sketch if it could be practically implemented. Apparently, there are > several research groups also interested in solving this problem, however, > to date, there is not consensus on the best algorithmic approach nor is > there consensus on what the theoretical error bounds would be. > > We did briefly discuss the possibility of re-creating a > datasketches-experimental repository for algorithms like this that are > still experimental and not ready for production. This would allow early > adopters to experiment with the algorithms and provide feedback. We had > such a repository in the github.com/datasketches organization, but as of > yet have not seen the need to move it to Apache. If and when this new > quantiles algorithm becomes available in the future it will be a good > candidate to place in an experimental repository. > > Because this work is still preliminary and very early in development, > there are no action items for the DataSketches engineering. > > Lee. > > >
