Meeting Minutes from 07/06 Iceberg Sync

[Sam Redai <sa...@tabular.io>]

Hey Iceberg Community,

Here are the minutes and recording from our Iceberg Sync that took place
today on *July 6th, 9am-10am PT*.

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 who is seeking an invite. The notes and the agenda are posted
in the live
doc
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YuGhUdukLP5gGiqCbk0A5_Wifqe2CZWgOd3TbhY3UQg/edit?usp=drive_web>
that's
also attached to the meeting invitation and it's a good place to add items
as you see fit so we can discuss them in the next community sync.

Meeting Recording
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kgdpSWOFa6mXbfndY2Jaka-sUy6ZJGD5/view?userstoinvite=none>
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   Highlights
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      Spark 3.3 support is in (Thanks, Prashant!)
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      Added Python Avro and metadata reads (Thanks, Fokko!)
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      Docs theme was committed (Thanks, Sam!)
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      Added performance fixes for Spark (Thanks, Bryan!)
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      API for changelog scan planning is in (Thanks, Anton, Yufei, and
      Steven!)
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   Releases
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      0.14.0
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         Ryan will be Release Manager
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         Please raise blockers as soon as possible!
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         Blockers
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            Metrics config with 32 columns (#3959
            <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/3959>)
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               Bump to 100 columns?
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            Add Iceberg version header to REST
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            Create transaction fix in REST catalog (#5199
            <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5199>)
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         Probably not in the release
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            View API
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            Puffin stats
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   Discussion
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      Performance benchmarks
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      Views status
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      Addressing branches and tags by name
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         Check with engine implementations to agree to a standard SQL
         syntax (Dremio, Nessie, BigQuery, Trino, Hive, Impala,
Snowflake, Flink,
         Spark)


Thanks everyone!