+1 non-binding, I have been following the project for almost a year now and I have reviewed several PRs around query planning and AQE, and I'd like to share my perspective, hoping it helps the PMC.
Based on my experience within several ASF projects, I consider that datafusion-distributed clears the quality bar in terms of design and implementation, it is properly maintained (review process, releases, etc.). In the past year it has featured a growing number of issues/PRs from multiple new contributors, working at different companies. The project has a welcoming atmosphere and it feels like a real community is growing around it. Disclaimer: I work at Datadog alongside Gabriel and Jayant, but I am sharing this purely with my "ASF hat" on. Best regards, Alessandro On Thu, 12 Nov 2026 at 11:50, Gabriel Musat via dev < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Following the community discussion [1], this vote is to determine > whether the DataFusion PMC accepts the contribution of the > datafusion-distributed codebase [2] as a subproject, hosted in a new > apache/datafusion-distributed repository. > > DataFusion Distributed (DFD) is a Rust library for adding distributed > execution to existing DataFusion applications. It aims to stay close to > native DataFusion while leaving worker management, networking, and > deployment to the embedding application. > > It would coexist with Ballista, which provides a customizable > distributed engine with its own scheduler, executors, and operational > tooling. datafusion-distributed is an embeddable distribution library > for applications that manage their own workers, networking, and > deployment. > > Jayant Shrivastava (@jayshrivastava) and I plan to continue contributing > to and maintaining datafusion-distributed within the DataFusion community. > > If the vote passes, we will work with the PMC to complete ASF IP > clearance before moving the repository. Acceptance is subject to > successful clearance; we are preparing the paperwork in parallel. > > The vote will remain open for at least seven days. DataFusion PMC votes > are binding; everyone else is welcome to participate with a non-binding > vote. > > [ ] +1 Accept datafusion-distributed as an Apache DataFusion subproject > [ ] 0 No opinion > [ ] -1 Reject datafusion-distributed as an Apache DataFusion subproject > because... > > Here is my vote: > > +1 (non-binding) > > Thanks, > Gabriel > > [1]: > https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-distributed/issues/784 > [2]: https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-distributed > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
