Ryan Skraba

I believe this can be reproduced by adding the `java.io.Serializable` interface to an abstract class. There are no new methods to be implemented, but a High source compatibility break is...

Hello! A couple of quick points: 1. Name validation can be turned off in [Schema.Parser](https://github.com/apache/avro/blob/master/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/Schema.java#L1331). It's probably not _great_ to use non-standard names across platforms/languages, but it's possible. 1. The...

**For info:** @cricket007 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2687 and a [link](https://lists.apache.org/x/thread.html/16b68748464a7ce7232f12bbbf781cbfd5de982785d5648b6c564cc9@%3Cdev.avro.apache.org%3E) to the last discussion on the mailing list. Avro has not followed literal semantic versioning, which is often unexpected. Your (tactful and gentle)...

> question: is this backwards compatible? That's a good question. This change modifies the schema being stored and returned, so it depends on how the schema is being used. It...

I've asked for a 1.11.1 release on Avro, we should probably be seeing release candidates with the upstream fix in the next few weeks.

I've raised this issue #439 -- a PR will be incoming and we can close this. The next version of Avro will accept the `record` name (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3370) but it will...

Neat! I was just poking around the codecs code so this is really interesting and timely. I'm currently looking at how to run the parquet-benchmarks project... I'll see if I...

I have to admit, I don't know how to publish the new website without a release! This is going to be a learning experience...

> Thanks for the contribution. I think it would be great to have a test here confirming that the change fixes the issue Thanks Sergey, especially for the collaboration! This...

Sorry for the delay! I've merge/squashed all of the commits (with @snuyanzin now as co-author, thanks!). The only changes were 1 javadoc clarification and the small requested simplification in the...