Hi Gabriel, It's been a while since I've involved in the donation of a project to an exiting Apache project, but here are some initial thoughts and tips.
If this donation proceeds, it will need to go through the ASF IP clearance process, Documentation is at https://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/. You can look at previous examples such as DataFusion and Comet being donated to the Arrow project. I have not been following the project closely, but IIRC, one of the considerations is whether the project has a strong community behind it, not just from one company. Perhaps this is already the case. I suspect the main question will be how it relates to Ballista, which is another distributed version of DataFusion that has been developed under DataFusion governance for quite some time. To be clear, I don't object to datafusion-distributed being another alternative, but I know the question will arise. Is there a strong reason to bring in a competing project rather than contributing to an existing project? Again, I haven't looked closely at the project, but it seems like the main difference might be around some features such as more flexible exchange strategies rather than any fundamental differences in approach. It would be good to understand the differences between the projects' goals, but that is just my opinion. I hope that helps. Andy. On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 7:44 PM Gabriel Musat <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are considering bringing > https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-distributed under Apache > DataFusion governance. > > Does anyone have thoughts on whether this would be a good fit, or concerns we > should consider? This is an initial discussion to gather feedback, not a > formal proposal. Please share any thoughts on the GitHub issue [1]. > > Gabriel > > [1]: https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-distributed/issues/784 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
