I have submitted the report to the board. You can find the final report here:[1]
Thank you to Tim, Oleks and Xudong for their comments and assistance. Andrew [1]: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/17506 On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > The DataFusion ASF board report[1] is due in 2 days (2025-12-10). I have > made a draft at [2] and copy/pasted below. If you have anything to add > please let me know by responding to this email or adding comments directly > in the document. > > [1]: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/17506 > [2]: > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UNZNLOGm4FiJ8l_8q6tIJkvyD2nmSpDi4SmtOAIU8qc/ > > > Andrew > > ------- > > 2025-12-10 DataFusion ASF Board Report > https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/17506 > > DataFusion PMC Chair Note: Please add any relevant comments / content to > this document. I (Andrew Lamb) will submit to the ASF board on Wed Dec 10, > 2025 (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: > 2025-09-10 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 54 committers and 20 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. > > Community changes, past quarter: > - Jeffrey Vo was added to the PMC on 2025-11-23 > - Yongting You was added to the PMC on 2025-11-23 > - Gabriel Musat was added as committer on 2025-10-31 > - Raz Luvaton was added as committer on 2025-10-01 > - Zhen Wang was added as committer on 2025-10-02 > - Yoav Cohen was added as committer on 2025-09-17 > > > ## 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 > 51.0.0 was released on 2025-11-19. > 50.3.0 was released on 2025-10-24. > 50.1.0 was released on 2025-10-02. > 50.0.0 was released on 2025-09-16. > > > > The most recent release (~ 2 months of contributions) had 128 distinct > contributors, which we think is a record and shows the project is able to > attract and sustain a large community. Development is now largely focused > on more advanced optimizations, and we have been able to attract a > significant amount of engineering investment from the community > > We have gotten better about writing about our releases externally, > including several blogs > https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/11/25/datafusion-51.0.0 > https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/09/29/datafusion-50.0.0 > https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/09/21/custom-types-using-metadata > https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/09/10/dynamic-filters > > > We have also held several in person meetups in various locations, which > have been successful in bringing together contributors. > > Finally, as always, the biggest bottleneck for increasing project velocity > is reviewer capacity. The rise of AI powered coding assistants has made > this bottleneck more acute as it makes it easier to create large PRs. The > community has written up [guidelines] for AI assisted contributions which > seems to have improved the overall PR quality. > > [guidelines]: > > https://datafusion.apache.org/contributor-guide/index.html#ai-assisted-contributions > > > ### Sub project: DataFusion Python > > https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python > > DATAFUSION-PYTHON-50.1.0 was released on 2025-10-20. > DATAFUSION-PYTHON-50.0.0 was released on 2025-09-23. > > > > ### Sub project: DataFusion Comet > > COMET-0.12.0 was released on 2025-12-01. > COMET-0.10.1 was released on 2025-10-06. > COMET-0.10.0 was released on 2025-09-16. > > > https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet > > > You can read about the recent happenings in Comet in the blogs: > https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/12/04/datafusion-comet-0.12.0 > https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/10/21/datafusion-comet-0.11.0 > https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/09/16/datafusion-comet-0.10.0 > > > > ### Sub project: DataFusion Ballista > > BALLISTA-50.0.0 was released on 2025-11-22. > BALLISTA-49.0.0 was released on 2025-10-06. > > > https://github.com/apache/datafusion-ballista > > > ### Sub project: sqlparser-rs > > SQLPARSER-0.59.0 was released on 2025-09-24. > SQLPARSER-0.60.0 was released on 2025-12-07. > > https://github.com/apache/datafusion-sqlparser-rs > > Ifeanyi Ubah (iffyio) continues to review most PRs in this repo. We added a > new committer Yoav Cohen focused on sqlparser in an attempt to increase the > review bandwidth available. > > > ## 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. >
