It is that time again -- the ASF board report is due June 10 (in 2 days). Sorry for the short notice.
As is our custom, I try and gather input from the community on any issues they think we should raise to the board, and I will submit the report. If anyone has content they would like to add to the report, please respond to this email, add it as a comment on the ticket, or a suggestion directly into the document. Tracking ticket: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/20874 Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/152NPdyW7hExjzdYI4bhVsWHrV1AYAa1mmZq_90bgwSs Thanks, Andrew --------- 2026-06-10 DataFusion ASF Board Report https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/20874 DataFusion PMC Chair Note: Please add any relevant comments / content to this document. I (Andrew Lamb) will submit to the ASF board on June 10, 2026 (about one week prior to the scheduled board meeting). The format of this report and the metrics are from https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/?datafusion The rationale and process for this report: https://www.apache.org/foundation/board/reporting Past examples: 2026-03-11 DataFusion ASF Board 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 (2 years ago) There are currently 58 committers and 22 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 8:3. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Adrian Garcia Badaracco on 2026-02-01. - Bhargava Vadlamani was added as committer on 2026-04-28 - Kumar Ujjawal was added as committer on 2026-04-28 ## Project Activity: Note that almost all communication for DataFusion and its subprojects happens on github and so our dev mailing list traffic is fairly light. ### DataFusion core https://github.com/apache/datafusion 53.1.0 was released on 2026-04-16. 53.0.0 was released on 2026-03-23. 52.5.0 was released on 2026-04-11. 52.4.0 was released on 2026-03-22. 52.3.0 was released on 2026-03-12. Our releases now consist of contributions from over 120 distinct contributors (was 100), and we average around [9.2 commits per day] to the main repo (up from [7.8 commits per day]) [9.2 commits per day]: git rev-list --count apache/main --since='2026-03-10 00:00:00' --until='2026-06-08 23:59:59' [7.8 commits per day]: git rev-list --count apache/main --since='2026-02-09 00:00:00' --until='2026-03-09 23:59:59' The community continues to write blogs highlighting our work https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2026/02/02/datafusion_case https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2026/01/30/datafusion-comet-0.13.0 https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2026/01/12/datafusion-52.0.0 https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2026/01/12/extending-sql https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/12/15/avoid-consecutive-repartitions We continue to hold small scale in person meetups in various locations, which have been successful in bringing together contributors. We had events in Portland, Seattle, NYC, and Stockholm, and are trying to hold more in Asia, such as in China. See a list here: https://datafusion.apache.org/user-guide/concepts-readings-events.html#community-events The overall number of PRs in need of review has been growing, likely due to increasing use of AI coding tools and the overall growth of the community. As the project matures, time is extending between major releases, likely due to increased testing and attention to quality. ### Sub project: DataFusion Python https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python DATAFUSION-PYTHON-53.0.0 was released on 2026-04-12. DATAFUSION-PYTHON-52.3.0 was released on 2026-03-16. ### New sub project: DataFusion Java We have added Java Bindings as a subproject. You can read about it here: https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/output/2026/05/26/datafusion-java-0.1.0/ ### Sub project: DataFusion Comet COMET-0.16.0 was released on 2026-01-29. https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet You can read about the recent happenings in Comet in the blogs: https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2026/05/07/datafusion-comet-0.16.0 ### Sub project: DataFusion Ballista https://github.com/apache/datafusion-ballista BALLISTA-52.0.0 was released on 2026-03-07. BALLISTA-51.0.0 was released on 2026-01-19. There has been an increase of number contributions to ballista, and PR reviews, which is very positive. I hope this trend is going to persist in the future. ### Sub project: sqlparser-rs SQLPARSER-0.62.0 was released on 2026-05-27. https://github.com/apache/datafusion-sqlparser-rs Ifeanyi Ubah (iffyio) continues to review most PRs in this repo. ## Community Health: While we as always struggle with 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 continue to merge multiple PRs a day from multiple committers and have contributions from a wide variety of individuals with a wide variety of employers, organizations, and backgrounds.
