AVRO-1272. Ruby: Improve schema namespace handling.  Contributed by Martin Kleppmann.

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AVRO-1268. Java: Extend support for stringables from reflect to specific.  Contributed by Alexandre Normand and cutting.

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AVRO-1259. Java: Improve Trevni's encoding of sparse columns.

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