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| Date | Decision | Item | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-16 | Established, Lei Wang as VP | special order | approved, minutes pending approval |
Auron accelerates Apache Spark SQL by providing an alternative vectorized execution layer implemented in Rust, enabling native performance while maintaining full Spark compatibility. Auron has been incubating since 2025-08-05. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Increase public communication on dev@ and ensure all project decisions and planning are captured on the mailing list. 2. Grow the community and attract more contributors and users. 3. Enhance community diversity and sustainability. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? No ### How has the community developed since the last report? Two new committers added: Shilun Fan and Shreyesh Arangath. ### How has the project developed since the last report? 140 commits since the last report, including Flink integration with Kafka source and Calc operator conversion, native scan support for Iceberg and Hudi tables, the first native ORC write via InsertIntoHiveTable, new native functions and window functions, critical stability fixes for panics and NPEs, Spark 4.0/4.1 build compatibility, JNI-layer Spark decoupling, and a multi-version correctness testing framework. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: 2026-03-04 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2026-03-31 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Yes, all the mentors are helpful and responsive on the community growth and project development. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Yes. The podling name "Auron" has been reviewed by the VP, Brand. We are not aware of any misuse by third parties. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (auron) Becket Qin Comments: I agree that we can start to discuss the graduation of the project. - [X] (auron) Calvin Kirs Comments: I think this podling is ready to graduate. - [ ] (auron) Hao Ding Comments: - [X] (auron) Nicholas Jiang Comments: Current status is worth discussion of gradutation. ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Auron accelerates Apache Spark SQL by providing an alternative vectorized
execution layer implemented in Rust, enabling native performance while
maintaining full Spark compatibility.
Auron has been incubating since 2025-08-05.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Increase public communication on dev@ and ensure all project decisions
and planning are captured on the mailing list.
2. Grow the community and attract more contributors and users.
3. Enhance community diversity and sustainability.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. One new committer added: Mang Zhang.
2. 10 new contributors since last release.
3. Continued active development with code quality improvements.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Published 7.0.0-incubating release with 251 new commits.
2. Added three Improvement Proposals for Flink support, correctness
testing, and CI integration testing.
3. Introduced new AuronConfiguration system and fixed major correctness
issues.
4. Enhanced native function support with 20+ new functions.
5. Added Spark 4.0.2/3.5.8 and JDK 21 compatibility.
6. Improved CI/CD with JUnit 5 and code quality plugins.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2026-03-04
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-12-19
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, all the mentors are helpful and responsive on the community growth and
project development.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes. The podling name "Auron" has been reviewed by the VP, Brand. We are
not aware of any misuse by third parties.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (auron) Becket Qin
Comments: Happy to see the development of Flink support.
- [X] (auron) Calvin Kirs
Comments: Good to see the new version released.
- [ ] (auron) Hao Ding
Comments:
- [ ] (auron) Nicholas Jiang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Auron accelerates Apache Spark SQL by providing an alternative vectorized execution layer implemented in Rust, enabling native performance while maintaining full Spark compatibility. Auron has been incubating since 2025-08-05. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF policies. 2. Increase public communication on dev@ and ensure all project decisions and planning are captured on the mailing list. 3. Grow the community and attract more contributors and users. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? No ### How has the community developed since the last report? 1. One new committers added: Ruilei Ma 2. 20 active code contributors, including 10 new contributors. 3. made a presentation at RustChinaConf 2025. ### How has the project developed since the last report? 1. The community has published its first incubating release (apache-auron-incubating-v6.0.0) 2. 179 commits since 2025-08-31 3. The community continues to improve Spark on Auron, including the implementation of numerous native functions, enhancements to test cases, and improvements to build scripts. 4. The community is making progress on Flink on Auron, having completed the design proposal document, and refactored the common core module (auron-core). ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: 2025-10-17 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2025-09-22 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Yes, all the mentors are helpful and responsive on the project bootstrap and community growth. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Yes. The podling name “Auron” has been reviewed by the VP, Brand. We are not aware of any misuse by third parties. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (auron) Becket Qin Comments: - [X] (auron) Calvin Kirs Comments: - [X] (auron) Hao Ding Comments: keep working - [X] (auron) Nicholas Jiang Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
The Auron accelerator for big data engine (e.g., Spark, Flink) leverages native vectorized execution to accelerate query processing. It combines the power of the Apache DataFusion library and the scale of the distributed computing framework. Auron has been incubating since 2025-08-05. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Finish the source code cleanup. 2. Publish the first Apache release. 3. Grow the community and attract more contributors and users ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? No ### How has the community developed since the last report? One new committer joined the project. ### How has the project developed since the last report? No ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [X] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: N/A ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? Sept. 1, 2025 - Fei Wang(turboFei) ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Yes, all the mentors are helpful and responsive on the project bootstrap and community growth. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Yes ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (auron) Becket Qin Comments: - [X] (auron) Calvin Kirs Comments: Progressing well. - [X] (auron) Hao Ding Comments: - [X] (auron) Nicholas Jiang Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: