Meeting Minutes 2024-09-11

[Brian Olsen <bi...@gmail.com>]

Hey Iceberg Nation,

Here are the meeting minutes from the September 11th meeting.

Transcription/Recording

https://youtu.be/4oDdra5cYl8

Project Updates
0:00 Meeting Start
1:00 Docs improvements ongoing, thanks to Manu
1:24 PR merging guidelines published
1:53 Druid added Iceberg support
2:15 Spec updates:
2:23 Remove partition spec API added
3:10 Endpoint config and server-side planning endpoints added
4:56 Java updates:
5:00 Incremental snapshot cleanup fix
5:36 Parallel table migration backported
5:51 REST compatibility test kit added
6:21 Flink V2 sync API added
7:00 Timestamp nanoseconds implementation

### 1.7.0 Release Planning
17:47 Variant spec moved to Parquet project
9:09 New delete file layout proposal targeting inclusion
9:22 Row lineage proposal nearing consensus
11:37 Implementation work ongoing for various V3 features
11:50 Considering splitting some V3 features to 1.8 if not ready

### V3 Deletes Proposal
25:57 Proposal received positive feedback
26:07 PRs in progress to demonstrate implementation details
27:05 Seeking community review and consensus

### Row IDs and Tracking
28:51 Settled on global metadata high watermark for row identifiers
29:00 Version tracking last sequence number that updated a row
29:18 Spec PR in progress