Note taker : 

Agenda

Status Updates 

Blockers, Progress towards next releases, things needing immediate attention, JIRA cleanup

• Graduation discussion underway.. Fingers crossed
• 0.5.3 - Local branch built with all proposed changes so far. and it's passing tests.. Bhavani Sudha Saktheeswaran to coordinate the timelines (announce code freeze)
• 0.6.0 - sivabalan narayanan volunteered ... He will drive the bug bash..  Balaji Varadarajan, Udit Mehrotra's bootstrap work will be the main blocker. 

Pull Request Review 

Unblock reviews, Resolve sticky points

• All PRs have owners. 
• We will prioritize small PRs to unblock 0.5.3 this week. 

RFC Reviews

Go over major open ended items

• RFC-18 : Insert Override APIs.. 
• RFC-15 : Latest update here 

Open Floor 

new ideas, feedback, suggestions.

• Update on bulk_insert perf issue.. df.toRDD → RDD[Avro] → ...  (df.with.. , Row → Parquet.. ) 
• Use of uuid as sort key.. 

Major Followups