Julia Signell

Definitely! I think we need a formal distributed API page on the dask docs.

I agree that it would be better if there were one canonical version of these config fields, but I do think that the current behavior is intentional. It is described...

This seems vaguely similar to your work in #7655 right @GenevieveBuckley?

> Do you think it's feasible to add a block-level boolean attribute to designate if the block is `empty` (or all zeros), e.g. `self.block_is_empty` (True/False/None for empty, non-empty, unknown)? This...

Oh I missed that you are talking about zero-filled chunks. You are right. I think the term `empty` threw me because in dask.dataframe that refers to a dataframe with no...

I think the approach that you have makes sense and if you plan to put it at the block-level then I think you won't get complaints. So it would be...

That is very helpful! I think I can do a fix for just this issue.

Sorry for the slow response. I wonder if we can just set the index _after_ we subset the series? Something like: ```python def _empty_series(name, dtype, index=None): if isinstance(dtype, str) and...

Thanks for writing this up! I think an example of how to apply customized optimizations to collections would be valuable. We kind of touch on it in https://docs.dask.org/en/stable/optimize.html#customizing-optimization but an...

I just saw this again on https://gpuci.gpuopenanalytics.com/job/dask/job/dask/job/prb/job/dask-prb/2330/