+1 (non-binding)
On 2025/08/20 18:25:19 Aihua Xu wrote: > Hi community, > > I’d like to follow up on our community sync to proceed with finalizing the > variant spec. > > Per the Parquet specification requirements, two reference implementations > are needed to finalize the Variant logical type. Both Java and Go > implementations now support variant encoding and shredding. > > Java already has the encoding and shredding implementations in place: > apache/parquet-java#3197 <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3197> > apache/parquet-java#3202 <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3202> > apache/parquet-java#3223 > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/issues/3223> > apache/parquet-java#3211 > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/issues/3211> > > Go also includes encoding and shredding support: > apache/arrow-go#344 <https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/pull/344> > apache/arrow-go#434 <https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/pull/434> > > In addition, we have also completed cross-language validations between the > Java and Go implementations (PR#3258 > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3258> and PR#455 > <https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/pull/455>) to confirm compatibility and > make sure that the specs can be interpreted consistently. Rust has also > validated against the Variant test suites in PR#8104 > <https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8104>. > > Given this progress, I propose that we remove the "under development" notes > from the documentation and move forward with finalizing the specifications (PR > #509 <https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/509>). > This vote will be open for at least 72 hours. > > [ ] +1 Finalize Varint and Shredding Spec > [ ] +0 > [ ] -1 Do not release this because... >
