Hi all, It’s time to submit our board report soon on August 14th. Here’s a draft, feel free to leave any comments:
========================= Description: Apache Spark is a fast and general purpose engine for large-scale data processing. It offers high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python, R and SQL as well as a rich set of libraries including stream processing, machine learning, and graph analytics. Issues for the board: - None Project status: - We released Apache Spark 4.0 Preview 1 on June 3, 2024. - We are preparing the preview release of Spark 3.5.2. - The PMC voted to add three new committers (Allison Wang, Martin Grund, and Haejoon Lee) and one new PMC member (Kent Yao) to the project. - The votes for two infrastructure changes have passed: "Move Spark Connect server to built-in package (Client API layer remains external)" and "Allow GitHub Actions runs for contributors' PRs without approvals in apache/spark-connect-go." - The votes on "SPIP: Stored Procedures API for Catalogs" and "Differentiate Spark without Spark Connect from Spark Connect" have passed. - We clarified our committer guidelines at https://spark.apache.org/committers.html, including reminding committers about leaving sufficient time for reviews. Latest releases: - Spark 4.0 Preview 1 was released on June 3, 2024 - Spark 3.4.3 was released on April 18, 2024 - Spark 3.5.1 was released on February 28, 2024 Committers and PMC: - The latest committer was added on July 10th, 2023 (Allison Wang). - The latest PMC members were added on Aug 8th, 2024 (Kent Yao). =========================
