Meeting Minutes from 2023-04-26 Iceberg Sync

[Eduard Tudenhoefner <ed...@tabular.io>]

Hi Iceberg Community,
Here are the minutes and recording from our Iceberg Sync.

Always remember, anyone can join the discussion so feel free to share the
Iceberg-Sync <https://groups.google.com/g/iceberg-sync> google group with
anyone seeking an invite.
The notes and the agenda are posted in the Iceberg Sync doc
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YuGhUdukLP5gGiqCbk0A5_Wifqe2CZWgOd3TbhY3UQg/edit?usp=drive_web>
that's
also attached to the meeting invitation and it's an excellent place to add
items as you see fit so we can discuss them in the following community sync.

Meeting Recording
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z-kmwGRCHTJVla88dTk3KRHtF47LjWqJ/view?usp=sharing>
⭕ / Meeting Transcript
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gd_11V3zlV4V0Pex8-5ZEr1WmNXykz6CWEjr9VN2Gys/edit?usp=sharing>


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   Highlights
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      Flink: 1.17 support was added, 1.14 removed (Thanks, Liwei!)
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      Spark 3.4 support was added (Thanks, Anton!)
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         Drop table behavior is broken in SparkSession Catalog
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         Patch is available
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      JDK 17 support added (thanks Prashant!)
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   Releases
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      Python 0.4 (proposed, positional delete support)
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      Java 1.2.1
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      Java 1.3.x (Release manager: Anton)
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         Spark storage partition joins fixes
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         Flink 1.17 Support
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         Spark 3.4 Support
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         Run Flink without Hadoop
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   Discussion
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      Decimal Type precision and scale handling
      <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/7420>
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      Handling the ambiguity in generating changelog
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      Change Data Materialisation for CopyOnWrite Operations (Spark)


Thanks everyone!