Using the name "Arrow" for projects based on Apache Arrow

[jmacd]

Describe the usage question you have. Please include as many useful details as possible.

This is a governance question.

OpenTelemetry has developed a project to transmit telemetry using a particular protocol based around the Arrow-Go library and Arrow IPC.

This is a CNCF-hosted project. We are proposing to name the protocol "OTel-Arrow". OpenTelemetry collector components would be named, for example otelarrowreceiver and otelarrowexporter, as described in open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#26491.

The repository where this has been developed: https://github.com/open-telemetry/otel-arrow

Does the Apache Arrow project have any reservations or guidelines about the use of this name? This concern was raised during internal review by OpenTelemetry contributors. Thank you!

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[kou]

Thanks for asking this!
https://arrow.apache.org/powered_by/#project-and-product-names-using-apache-arrow is the guideline. Could you read it and the linked ASF documents?

[jmacd]

Thank you.

[jmacd]

I couldn't actually answer the question, but there's enough uncertainty about "OTel-Arrow" that we'll reconsider.