Github user holdenk commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/15659
That's a good question @rgbkrk - I think the closest is @davies but he has
been pretty busy lately. I think its pretty clear that Spark is understaffed on
Python maintainers - but it's sort of a hard cycle to fix given the current
process for adding maintainers (although I'm optimistic that maybe some of the
discussions from Cody's thread could perhaps help this). Many of the people who
work in Python a lot (like myself & @HyukjinKwon ) are not maintainers.
@JoshRosen has also done some Python work in the past but not a lot
recently.
Despite the lack of Python focused maintainers we are still often able to
get some work in since the maintainers for each component will generally help
out if your making a Python change related to their component (e.g. ML changes
to Python are easier to have reviewed) - but since this is sort of core-Python
it's a bit trickier.
It's a bit of a stretch - but @srowen might be able to help with the review
too since he does some reviews more related to the build - but not really
Python.
People that aren't maintainers but have some experience with Python can
help with the review of course (e.g. @BryanCutler, @sethah, @HyukjinKwon ) -
and it can be a useful signal to core maintainers who don't have the Python
background - but at the end of the day we do need a maintainer/committer to
sign off on this.
I'm hoping @mateiz's interest from our discussion on the previous PR is
still present and we can get him to do the review - but otherwise I'll keep
looking for someone else who would feel comfortable merging this. (Of course
the longer discussion around the lack of Python ecosystem focused maintainers
for Spark is something I'd also love to move forward but I think that really
depends on the PMC and they haven't had the interest in having those
discussions in public so there isn't a lot I can do).
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