[ARROW-17092] [Docs] Add note about "Feather" to the IPC file format document

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 8.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 10.0.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/32398
• Assignee: SHIMA Tatsuya
• Reporter: SHIMA Tatsuya
• Created: 15/Jul/22 16:26
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:48
• Resolved: 28/Jul/22 05:02

Description

The IPC file format is often referred to as Feather (especially in relation to Python and R), but beginners are confused because the word "Feather" does not appear on the IPC file format documentation.
https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#ipc-file-format

Note: This ticket was created as a result of a conversation with kou on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/eitsupi/status/1547534742324920321

Issue Links

• is related to: ARROW-8324 [R] Add read/write_ipc_file separate from _feather
• is related to: ARROW-17088 [R] Use `.arrow` as extension of IPC files of datasets
• is related to: ARROW-17089 [Python] Use `.arrow` as extension for IPC file dataset
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13693