Hello, As we have discussed previously [1], we are planning to propose [2] "graduating" the DataFusion to its own top level Apache project.
I would like to discuss the initial PMC members for the new top level project. The suggestion in [1] is > All existing Arrow Committers and PMC members who so desired, would start as committers or PMC members on the new DataFusion project (assuming this is allowed by the process) >From what I can tell, this means the PMC would be the following from the current Arrow PMC [3]: Andy Grove (NVidia) Andrew Lamb (InfuxData) Daniël Heres (Coralogix) Jie Wen (SelectDB) Kun Liu (Ebay) Liang-Chi Hsieh (Apple) Qingping Hou (Scribd) Will Jones (VoltronData) I think Raphael Taylor-Davies has told me offline he would prefer to focus on Arrow and thus now join the DataFusion PMC, though it would be nice if he could confirm. We also need to propose a chair of the new PMC -- I am happy to help anyone who would like to do this role, or do it myself. Spending a year as the Arrow PMC chair gave me sufficient experience to make sure the process is smooth, in my opinion. If the new project is approved and created then the initial PMC will invite the relevant existing Arrow commiters as DataFusion committers. Please let me know your thoughts and if there are other existing Arrow PMC members who should be included in the proposal for initial DataFusion PMC. Andrew p.s. As part of this process, I discovered Arrow's origin as a top level project came from splitting off from the Apache Drill project, which I had not previously known [1]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/discussions/6475 [2]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/8491 [3]: https://arrow.apache.org/committers/
