One nit: Community is voting for release of version 3.5.2 and there won't be any preview for this version, RC is sufficient.
On Sun, Aug 11, 2024, 2:02 AM Matei Zaharia <matei.zaha...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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). > > ========================= >
