Hello Fearless DataFusion(iers)! We have an ASF board report due in 2 weeks and I have started a draft.
Please feel free to post comments to the doc[1] or the ticket[2] or this thread and I will incorporate them [1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11b2GEmPh5gblWWegeZi3G38e97vRqHSRElkLTwZHrjY [2]: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/13713 Current draft is below. ``` ## 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 (10 months ago) There are currently 43 committers and 15 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Jonah Gao was added to the PMC on 2024-12-16 - Piotr Findeisen was added as committer on 2024-12-03 - Ruiqiu Cao was added as committer on 2024-12-10 - Yongting You was added as committer on 2025-01-18 Note that almost all communication for DataFusion and its subprojects happens on github and so our dev mailing list traffic is fairly light. ## Project Activity: ### Overall ### DataFusion core 45.0.0 was released on 2025-02-07. 44.0.0 was released on 2024-12-31. https://github.com/apache/datafusion Releases continue monthly and the project has been very active with many commits a day. It seems many new projects have been using DataFusion for query processing which brings more contributors but also means we are spending more time fielding questions and figuring out how many more features to accept. Bruce Ritchie recently authored a [blog] about some of the features and the outlook for the next 6 months. We have been focusing more recently on pre-release testing and making it easier for downstream consumers to use DataFusion, which is still a challenge given how fast the project is moving. [blog]: https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/02/20/datafusion-45.0.0/ ### Sub project: DataFusion Python https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python PYTHON-45.2.0 was released on 2025-02-23. PYTHON-44.0.0 was released on 2025-02-07. PYTHON-43.1.0 was released on 2024-12-12. ### Sub project: DataFusion Comet https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet COMET-0.6.0 was released on 2025-02-17. COMET-0.5.0 was released on 2025-01-17. ### Sub project: DataFusion Ballista https://github.com/apache/datafusion-ballista ### (New!) Sub project: DataFusion Ray https://github.com/apache/datafusion-ray This is a new project aims to make it easier to run DataFusion in a distributed environment using the https://www.ray.io/ compute engine ### Sub project: Sqlparser We have made two releases since sqlparser became part of DataFusion. - SQLPARSER-0.54.0 was released on 2025-01-23. - SQLPARSER-0.53.0 was released on 2024-12-18. Ifeanyi / iffyio is doing a great job reviewing PRs to keep the code consistent and flowing. ## Community Health: While we as always struggle to get enough code review capacity, we have many active committers, and the community in general helps each other out with reviews. We continue to actively grow our committer and PMC ranks. We had several in person meetups in Chicago, Boston, and Amsterdam, though we don’t have any more ```
