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September 2024 ASF Board Report #10156
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?
Per https://whimsy.apache.org/roster/committee/datafusion the DataFusion ASF board report schedule is
March, June, September, December
Describe the solution you'd like
I would like to draft a board report for the ASF board meeting, ideally with community help.
The meetings are typically in the second or third week of the month
Describe alternatives you've considered
I plan to do this in the same style that worked well in Arrow (see an example from @andygrove
here https://lists.apache.org/thread/7w4mgy98qomc6drvj2fo81gvhq6p0boc) -- make a google doc (or issue) that people can add relevant content to and then the chair (me for the time being) submits it to the board
Additional context
No response
Activity
alamb commentedon Aug 20, 2024
Due Wed Sep 11 2024 (in 22 days)
alamb commentedon Aug 20, 2024
Draft document is https://docs.google.com/document/d/10MrrMHyfALB9Vpjtl-6abGWdNz6VLiWR9yI1a6Yl1aw/edit
I also sent a note to the mailing list as well, but it doesn't see it posted yet
alamb commentedon Sep 9, 2024
This is due Wed Sep 11
alamb commentedon Sep 9, 2024
I updated the doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/10MrrMHyfALB9Vpjtl-6abGWdNz6VLiWR9yI1a6Yl1aw/edit and plan to submit in the 11th.
Current content for the curious:
Description:
The mission of Apache DataFusion is the creation and maintenance of software
related to an extensible query engine
Project Status:
Current project status: New + Ongoing (high activity)
Issues for the board: None
Membership Data:
Apache DataFusion was founded 2024-04-16 (5 months ago)
There are currently 37 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:2.
Community changes, past quarter:
Project Activity:
The project continues to be active with many PRs and issues opened and
closed per day.
We wrote two public blogs about our work: 1, 2 and DataFusion and systems built on it are being featured in high profile (for the Database world) venues such as the CMU Database Systems Seminar
We are working to adopt the sqlparser crate into the project as well
DataFusion core
https://github.com/apache/datafusion
We continue the monthly release cadence versions 40.0.0, 41.0.0 and are on track for version 42.0.0. The 41.0.0 release had almost 70 unique contributors.
We are currently focused on performance including for high cardinality aggregates and adding support for StringViewArrays. We completed a long running project to ensure all aggregate functions use the same API and are beginning the same project for window functions.
We have been discussing what features to include, and working to add LogicalTypes, as well as to create a more differentiated CLI experience. See the roadmap ticket for more details.
Sub project: DataFusion Python
https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python
The DataFusion Python project has received significant contributions recently to make the project more “Pythonic” and now has regular activity from maintainers. Tim Saucer has been added as a committer who focuses more heavily on datafusion-python.
Sub project: DataFusion Comet
https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet
The Comet project is very active and recently released its initial 0.1.0
source release. Blog post: https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/07/20/datafusion-comet-0.1.0/
Sub project: DataFusion Ballista
https://github.com/apache/datafusion-ballista
https://github.com/apache/datafusion-ballista-python
The Ballista subproject is not very actively maintained, but there have been
some contributions recently to upgrade to more recent versions of the core
DataFusion project.
Recent Releases
Community Health:
It is still hard to keep track of everything going on these, which is a good thing. While it is always a struggle to get enough code review capacity, the committers keep things going and the community helps each other out with reviews. We continue to actively grow our committer and PMC ranks.
There are currently four meetups planned: New York City, San Francisco (for the second time!) Belgrade, and Seattle.
alamb commentedon Sep 11, 2024
Final submitted report:
Description:
The mission of Apache DataFusion is the creation and maintenance of software
related to an extensible query engine
Project Status:
Current project status: New + Ongoing (high activity)
Issues for the board: None
Membership Data:
Apache DataFusion was founded 2024-04-16 (5 months ago)
There are currently 37 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:2.
Community changes, past quarter:
Project Activity:
The project continues to be active with many PRs and issues opened and closed
per day.
We wrote two public blogs about our work: 1, 2 and DataFusion and systems
built on it are being featured in high profile (for the Database world) venues
such as the CMU Database Systems Seminar
We are working to adopt the sqlparser crate into the project as well
DataFusion core
https://github.com/apache/datafusion
We continue the monthly release cadence versions 40.0.0, 41.0.0 and are on
track for version 42.0.0. The [41.0.0 release] had almost 70 unique
contributors.
We are currently focused on performance including for high cardinality
aggregates and adding support for StringViewArrays. We completed a long
running project to ensure all aggregate functions use the same API and are
beginning the same project for window functions.
We have been [discussing what features to include, and working to add
LogicalTypes, as well as to create a more differentiated CLI experience. See
the roadmap ticket for more details.
Sub project: DataFusion Python
https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python
The DataFusion Python project has received significant contributions recently
to make the project more “Pythonic” and now has regular activity from
maintainers. Tim Saucer has been added as a committer who focuses more heavily
on datafusion-python.
Sub project: DataFusion Comet
https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet
The Comet project is very active and recently released its initial 0.1.0
source release.
Blog post:
https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2024/07/20/datafusion-comet-0.1.0/
Sub project: DataFusion Ballista
https://github.com/apache/datafusion-ballista
https://github.com/apache/datafusion-ballista-python
The Ballista subproject is not very actively maintained, but there have been
some contributions recently to upgrade to more recent versions of the core
DataFusion project.
Recent Releases
Community Health:
It is still hard to keep track of everything going on these, which is a good
thing. While it is always a struggle to get enough code review capacity, the
committers keep things going and the community helps each other out with
reviews. We continue to actively grow our committer and PMC ranks.
There are currently four meetups planned: New York City, San Francisco (for
the second time!) Belgrade, and Seattle.
alamb commentedon Sep 11, 2024
Next report is in december: #10157