Ryan Blue

I don't think we want to have kernels implement this directly, for the same reason that we want this lib for getting Java object representations. It would be better to...

What is the actual behavior when you write to a table at some version? Does it create a snapshot with that version as the parent? Right now, branching and tagging...

> Can you ever merge branches or are they effectively independent tables at that point? @martint, I am pushing against any expectation that branches are ever merged. The use cases...

@jiayuasu, can you help me understand why we wouldn't make the clarifications @mkaravel suggests in this PR? If we don't expect the CRS to an effect on calculations for `geometry`...

I agree that we can move forward here and then discuss the change to add linear separately. I think clarifying how geometry works (that it is always independent of the...

> Just a note that I don't think this clarification is needed...a Cartesian bounding box like the one described here is perfectly legal in for the geometry type in GeoArrow's...

Thanks, @grantatspothero!

> > I’m not sure it’s worth drawing a line in the sand over this particular issue and I’d like to talk about it a bit more as a community...

We try to keep Netty in sync with the Spark and Arrow transitive dependencies. What effect does this have on Spark modules?

> Did we ever hit netty compatibility issues that are not covered by iceberg CI? I think that we have had problems in the past with Netty, but that was...