Jim Pivarski

The `to` → `to_` is fine, but the `RegularArray` names the type it's converting it into. Wouldn't the function of `to_RegularArray` be clearer than `to_regular_array`?

Okay, sure. `:)`

No deprecation period is needed before the 2.0.0 release.

That's right, the layouts are a low-level, public API, and we've advertised that we will be changing these slightly. Slightly means some methods/properties will have different names, which is what...

I _think_ hatchling is just for pure Python projects. But scikit-build definitely. I should probably write that up as an upcoming project, since it's one that @henryiii has in mind...

We're not 100% sure that Rust is going to be needed. A lot of the string functions that we need are also in pyarrow, which we need for other reasons....

I don't understand what went wrong in that one test (`no: command not found`?), but maybe it's intermittent. I've set this to auto-merge.

And then un-set it when that didn't work. But I see now that it's #1722 that will fix this and the others.

@henryiii's suggestion: 1.9.0 with Python 3.6 and then 1.10.x as the bug-fix series for v1. And then not need to keep any rc releases.

There was a point, not long in the past, when it wasn't possible; everything would break, quite impressively. When I first found out about pytest-xdist, I decided to try it,...