Hello, The DataFusion ASF board report[1] is due in 2 days (2026-03-11). As is our tradition, we welcome additions from anyone to crowdsource this draft. I made a draft at [2] and copy/pasted below.
If you have anything to add / modify please let me know by responding to this email or adding comments directly in the document. [1]: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/19214 [2]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gzyhfvoj4FlUpgrzC7ErjcSnhzlw80HdEtn_jcZ6xY0 Andrew ---- 2026-03-11 DataFusion ASF Board Report https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/19214 DataFusion PMC Chair Note: Please add any relevant comments / content to this document. I (Andrew Lamb) will submit to the ASF board on March 11, 2026 (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: 2025-12-10 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 56 committers and 22 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:3. Community changes, past quarter: - Adrian Garcia Badaracco was added to the PMC on 2026-02-01 - Marko Milenković was added to the PMC on 2025-12-18 - Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov was added as committer on 2026-02-14 - Nuno Faria was added as committer on 2026-01-26 ## 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 52.2.0 was released on 2026-03-01. 52.1.0 was released on 2026-01-23. 52.0.0 was released on 2026-01-12. Our releases continue to result from over 100 distinct contributors, and we still average around [7.8 commits per day] to the main repo. [7.8 commits per day]: git rev-list --count apache/main --since='2026-02-09 00:00:00' --until='2026-03-09 23:59:59' The community continues to write blogs highlighting our work https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2026/02/02/datafusion_case https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2026/01/30/datafusion-comet-0.13.0 https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2026/01/12/datafusion-52.0.0 https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2026/01/12/extending-sql https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2025/12/15/avoid-consecutive-repartitions We continue to hold small scale in person meetups in various locations, which have been successful in bringing together contributors. You can see a list here: https://datafusion.apache.org/user-guide/concepts-readings-events.html#community-events The overall number of PRs in need of review has been growing, likely due to increasing use of AI coding tools and the overall growth of the community. We will likely discuss how to make it easier to understand the overall project in the next quarter. The community [guidelines] for AI assisted contributions seem to be working well and we haven’t seen as many “AI Dumps” [guidelines]: https://datafusion.apache.org/contributor-guide/index.html#ai-assisted-contributions ### Sub project: DataFusion Python https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python DATAFUSION-PYTHON-52.0.0 was released on 2026-02-23. DATAFUSION-PYTHON-51.0.0 was released on 2026-01-09. ### Sub project: DataFusion Comet COMET-0.13.0 was released on 2026-01-29. https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet You can read about the recent happenings in Comet in the blogs: https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/2026/01/30/datafusion-comet-0.13.0 ### Sub project: DataFusion Ballista https://github.com/apache/datafusion-ballista Ballista-52.0.0 was released on 2026-03-07. BALLISTA-51.0.0 was released on 2026-01-19. ### Sub project: sqlparser-rs SQLPARSER-0.61.0 was released on 2026-02-10. https://github.com/apache/datafusion-sqlparser-rs Ifeanyi Ubah (iffyio) continues to review most PRs in this repo. ## 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.
