[ANNOUNCE] Hudi Community Weekly Update(2020-09-06 ~ 2020-09-13)

[leesf <le...@gmail.com>]

Dear community,

Nice to share Hudi community weekly update for 2020-09-06 ~ 2020-09-13 with
updates on discussion, features, bugfixs and tests.


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Discussion

[API] A discussion about standardizing Java date time APIs in codebase,
there are many different ways of manipulating date time, some of which
are inferior due to lack of thread-safety. [1]


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Features

[Integration Test] hudi-test-suite support for schema evolution (can be
triggered on any insert/upsert DAG node) [2]
[Writer Core] Add new Payload(OverwriteNonDefaultsWithLatestAvroPayload)
for updating specified fields in storage [3]


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Bugs

[Writer Core] Fix decimal type display issue for record key field [4]
[Writer Core] TypedProperties can not get values by initializing an
existing properties [5]
[Writer Core] AWSDmsTransformer does not handle insert and delete of a row
in a single batch correctly [6]


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Tests

[Test] Add HoodieWriteableTestTable [7]


[1]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra0bccb431ee61f7580851560e0aa36f2ed81b5e30c3cfef84f33aaad%40%3Cdev.hudi.apache.org%3E
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1130
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1255
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1181
[5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-1254
[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-802
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HUDI-781

Best,
Leesf