Re: [DISCUSS] Updating Arrow's "elevator pitch" on web properties

Thanks Julian, I like the changes. For the last part I agree listing languages is good; we would do well to include JavaScript and Ruby in that list. Hopefully the list will keep growing longer! On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Julian Hyde wrote: > Your proposed version is

Re: [DISCUSS] Updating Arrow's "elevator pitch" on web properties

Your proposed version is definitely an improvement. > "Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory > structured data access and analytics. It specifies a standardized > language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical > data, with support for zero-copy

[DISCUSS] Updating Arrow's "elevator pitch" on web properties

I believe we would benefit from modified language to describe the nature and scope of the Arrow project. Currently, our GitHub project description (and what we use in release announcements) states: "Apache Arrow is a columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big data. It houses a

[jira] [Created] (ARROW-1706) [Python] StructArray.from_arrays should handle sequences that are coercible to arrays

Wes McKinney created ARROW-1706: --- Summary: [Python] StructArray.from_arrays should handle sequences that are coercible to arrays Key: ARROW-1706 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1706

[jira] [Created] (ARROW-1705) [Python] Create StructArray (+ type inference) from sequence of dicts

Wes McKinney created ARROW-1705: --- Summary: [Python] Create StructArray (+ type inference) from sequence of dicts Key: ARROW-1705 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1705 Project: Apache

Re: [DISCUSS] Removing the "page" field from the Buffer record batch Arrow metadata

+1 agree it should be solved separately. On Fri, Oct 20, 2017, 21:24 Wes McKinney wrote: > Patch here: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1225 > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Li Jin wrote: > > +1 for the change too. >

[jira] [Created] (ARROW-1704) [GLib] Go example in test suite is broken

Wes McKinney created ARROW-1704: --- Summary: [GLib] Go example in test suite is broken Key: ARROW-1704 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1704 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Bug

[jira] [Created] (ARROW-1703) [C++] Vendor exact version of jemalloc we depend on

Wes McKinney created ARROW-1703: --- Summary: [C++] Vendor exact version of jemalloc we depend on Key: ARROW-1703 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1703 Project: Apache Arrow Issue

[jira] [Created] (ARROW-1702) Update jemalloc in manylinux1 build

Uwe L. Korn created ARROW-1702: -- Summary: Update jemalloc in manylinux1 build Key: ARROW-1702 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1702 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Improvement