I still need to start a discussion thread on how to handle catalogs in 2.0 and forward. If there aren't many people using the Dynamo catalog, it still makes sense to deprecate and remove it. Even if we move catalogs to a separate repo, we don't want to support more of them than necessary.
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 11:55 AM Jack Ye <yezhao...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like Ajantha already reverted it now in > https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/9815 so let's just keep it as is > for 1.5. > > As I listed in the PR just now, I think there are 3 options: > 1. Salesforce can move it to a Salesforce GitHub domain and own it > 2. my team can potentially move it to an Amazon-owned GitHub domain > (together with GlueCatalog) and collaborate there > 3. we move it with other catalogs together to the new separated repo > > For option 3, what is the latest plan? I remember we want to have more > devlist discussions from the last community sync, has anyone volunteered to > lead the discussion thread? > > -Jack > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 9:21 AM Ryan Blue <b...@tabular.io> wrote: > >> I don't think we need to revert a deprecation. Deprecation gives people >> time to move off of something that won't be supported in the future and it >> doesn't make sense to me to delay letting people know that. >> >> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 11:34 PM Ajantha Bhat <ajanthab...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Looks like Salesforce is using the DynamoDB catalog in production. >>> https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/9783#issuecomment-1965781361 >>> >>> They can provide more details. >>> >>> How about *reverting* the Deprecation for 1.5.0 release? >>> If finally concluded to be deprecated, can we deprecate it in 1.6.0? >>> I just don't want the upcoming RC4 to fail because of this and do RC5 >>> just for it. >>> >>> - Ajantha >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 2:44 AM Drew <img...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey everyone, >>>> >>>> Since it seems like we have met a consensus here, I can pick up the >>>> deprecation of DynamoDbCatalog. I submitted a PR that marks the catalog as >>>> deprecated and schedules it for complete removal in two releases starting >>>> with 1.6.0. >>>> >>>> Pr: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/9783 >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Drew >>>> >>>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 5:24 PM Ajantha Bhat <ajanthab...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> +1 for deprecation and removal by 2.0 version. >>>>> >>>>> - Ajantha >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 4:23 AM Daniel Weeks <dwe...@apache.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> +1 as well for deprecation >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 1:08 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Perfect ! Thanks ! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards >>>>>>> JB >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 7:18 PM Jack Ye <yezhao...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > Thanks for the feedback JB! Yes, I was originally intended to use >>>>>>> this thread to collect any concern of us flagging this catalog as >>>>>>> deprecated. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > If I don't receive any objection in the next 5 days, I will go >>>>>>> ahead to do that, and let the default 2 release full deprecation window >>>>>>> apply. And I will revive this thread again to double check when we plan >>>>>>> to >>>>>>> remove it after 2 releases. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > Best, >>>>>>> > Jack Ye >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 2:33 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré < >>>>>>> j...@nanthrax.net> wrote: >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> Hi Jack, >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> If we have a very low number of users and propose they move to >>>>>>> another >>>>>>> >> catalog, that makes sense to me. >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> I think we can first flag DynamodbCatalog as deprecated >>>>>>> (providing a >>>>>>> >> message to the community and give time for users to move forward), >>>>>>> >> then we can plan a vote later to remove it. >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> Regards >>>>>>> >> JB >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 7:11 PM Jack Ye <yezhao...@gmail.com> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> >> > Hi everyone, >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> >> > As discussed in community sync, I am raising a thread about >>>>>>> potentially deprecating DynamodbCatalog. >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> >> > I added it back in the day because of some customer >>>>>>> collaboration effort. Later another implementation was also added in >>>>>>> pybut >>>>>>> at this point the specific customer has forked the implementation and is >>>>>>> maintaining their own catalog. >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> >> > Please comment if you have any production dependency or have >>>>>>> any concern about deprecating for this catalog, and we can discuss the >>>>>>> path >>>>>>> forward. >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> >> > Best, >>>>>>> >> > Jack Ye >>>>>>> >>>>>> >> >> -- >> Ryan Blue >> Tabular >> > -- Ryan Blue Tabular
