As for the time zone case, I’d like to be careful about versioning. If we remove Avro, that seems like a breaking changedeserving of a major version bump.
It might be worth taking a survey wider than dev@. User@ or the customers of Impala packagers might be good places to start. On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 5:10 PM Tim Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > For a few years now we've had write support for Sequence, Avro and > compressed text hidden behind a query option. We haven't really made any > progress on turning it into a supported feature, so I'm wondering if we > should remove the code and save some overhead of building, testing and code > maintenance. > > I know I've found it useful once or twice to generate test data but I don't > think this is enough to justify maintaining it. > > It seems like we should get it out of this in-between state - either delete > the code or get it to the point where it's supported and tested. If we > delete it, it's always possible for someone to resurrect it later. > > What do people think? > > - Tim >
