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| Date | Action | Decided by |
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| 2022-12-21 | Appointed Jia Yu | the board, by resolution |
| Date | Decision | Item | Outcome |
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| 2022-12-21 | Establish the Apache Sedona Project | special order | approved |
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing, with high activity. Issues for the board: No issues. ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (4 years ago) There are currently 26 committers and 20 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Dewey Dunnington on 2026-04-28. - James Willis was added as committer on 2026-07-08 ## Project Activity: Apache Sedona 1.9.1 was released on August 5, 2026. This minor release includes bug fixes, new features, and improvements, with eight first-time contributors. Highlights include broad Geography support across core SQL functions and spatial joins; new Box2D and Box3D types with predicates, aggregates, spatial joins, and Parquet filter pushdown; GeoTIFF and NetCDF metadata data sources; raster distance joins and Python raster UDF support; expanded SedonaFlink Geography and Box3D support; a larger distributed GeoPandas API; and Chinese documentation. SedonaDB 0.4.0 was released on June 21, 2026. The release resolved 187 issues, added 26 spatial functions, and included work from 15 contributors. Major additions include GPU-accelerated spatial joins, a Python DataFrame API, an R dplyr interface, expanded Geography support, GeoParquet write support, and N-dimensional raster and Zarr support. The GPU spatial join work was also accepted to VLDB 2026 Industry Track. ## Community Health: The community remains very healthy, with an Apache Reporter Community Health Score (Chi) of 10.00 (Super Healthy). James Willis joined as a new committer this quarter, and both the Sedona and SedonaDB releases included broad contributor participation. Traffic on issues@ increased 24% quarter-over-quarter (2,753 vs. 2,215 emails), reflecting continued activity on GitHub issues and pull requests. Direct traffic on dev@ decreased 46% (23 vs. 42 emails), consistent with the project's ongoing shift toward GitHub for technical collaboration. JIRA activity remains low by design following the transition to GitHub Issues in 2025; 6 JIRA tickets were opened and 0 were closed this quarter.
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: No issues ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (3 years ago) There are currently 25 committers and 20 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4. Community changes, past quarter: - Dewey Dunnington was added to the PMC on 2026-04-28 - Liang Geng was added as committer on 2026-04-28 ## Project Activity: Sedona 1.9.0 was released on April 22, 2026. This is a major release with new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Key highlights include Spark 4.1 support, a new proj4sedona library for CRS transformation that replaces the previous PROJ dependency for many transformations, and a new family of Bing Tile spatial functions for tile-based analytics. The release also extends the OSM PBF reader with additional metadata fields, adds _metadata hidden column support for the Shapefile and GeoPackage DataSource V2 readers, expands the GeoPandas-style API on Spark with additional geometry operations, and includes numerous bug fixes and documentation improvements. SedonaDB 0.3.0 was released on March 10, 2026. This release of Apache Sedona's single-node spatial analytics engine introduces larger-than-memory spatial joins, allowing SedonaDB to operate on datasets that exceed available memory, and adds row-level CRS support so that geometries within a single column can carry independent coordinate reference systems. The release also includes broader spatial SQL coverage and performance improvements. SpatialBench 0.2.0 was released on February 23, 2026. This release of Apache Sedona's geospatial SQL benchmark suite adds S3 write support for data generation, nightly benchmark support for DuckDB and SedonaDB, Spatial Polars integration, and an automated benchmark GitHub Action for comparing spatial libraries across runs. ## Community Health: The community remains healthy with active engagement across GitHub, the dev mailing list, and Discord. The Apache Reporter Community Health Score (Chi) is 10.00 (Super Healthy). In recognition of sustained contributions, we promoted Dewey Dunnington to the PMC and added Liang Geng as a new committer this quarter. JIRA activity remains low by design — the project transitioned from JIRA to GitHub Issues in 2025, so most issue traffic now flows through GitHub. Traffic on the issues@ mailing list grew 13% quarter-over-quarter (2431 vs 2142 emails), reflecting continued contributor activity on PRs and issues.
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: No issues ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (3 years ago) There are currently 24 committers and 19 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Feng Zhang on 2025-10-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Peter Nguyen on 2025-10-31. ## Project Activity: Sedona 1.8.1 was released on January 8-9, 2026. Key highlights include a new Sedona Flink SQL module for distributed spatial analytics on Apache Flink, the ability to register Sedona functions as built-in SQL functions to support permanent SQL views, and STAC authentication support for both Python and Scala APIs. New spatial functions were added including ST_ApproximateMedialAxis, ST_StraightSkeleton, ST_Collect_Agg, and ST_OrientedEnvelope. The GeoPandas-style API on Spark was expanded with new geometry operations. Compatibility was improved for Spark 4.0 (Java 17) and Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS. The Python project was modernized to use pyproject.toml and uv. The release also includes multiple bug fixes and documentation improvements. SedonaDB 0.2.0 was released on December 1, 2025. This is a major update to Apache Sedona's single-node spatial analytics engine. It resolved 136 issues with contributions from 17 developers. The release added 40 new spatial and raster functions, GDAL/OGR spatial file format read support for formats like Shapefile, GeoPackage, and FlatGeoBuf, GeoParquet 1.1 write support, initial raster data type implementation, and Python user-defined function (UDF) support. The build system was improved and the package was published to crates.io. Performance was also enhanced with a refactored KNN join using a new geo-index trait and lock-free geometry cache, updated ADBC and DataFusion dependencies, and improved spatial predicate pruning. SpatialBench 0.1.0 was released in December 2025. This is the initial release of a standardized benchmark suite for geospatial SQL analytics performance. It provides realistic synthetic test datasets with a star-schema data model, a suite of 12 benchmark SQL queries covering spatial joins, distance queries, aggregations, and point-in-polygon analysis. It supports multiple scale factors and generates dialect-specific queries for SedonaDB, SedonaSpark, DuckDB, GeoPandas, and Spatial Polars, enabling fair and reproducible cross-engine comparisons. The project published the Apache Sedona 2025 Year in Review blog post in January 2026. ## Community Health: Total cumulative downloads have surpassed 65 million and monthly downloads exceed 2 million. The project has approximately 2,300 GitHub stars. Community engagement continues through GitHub, the dev mailing list, and Discord.
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing Issues for the board: No issues ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (3 years ago) There are currently 24 committers and 19 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5. Community changes, past quarter: - Feng Zhang was added to the PMC on 2025-10-04 - Dewey Dunnington was added as committer on 2025-10-06 - Peter Nguyen was added as committer on 2025-10-31 ## Project Activity: We achieved several key milestones in the past quarter. In September, we released Sedona 1.8.0, a major version that introduces Spark 4.0 support and a new GeoPandas-style API for Python users, significantly enhancing usability and performance. In addition, we launched two new subprojects under the Sedona umbrella: SedonaDB, a high-performance single-node database engine for geospatial data, and SpatialBench, a benchmark suite designed to evaluate and compare geospatial SQL analytics performance across different database systems. ## Community Health: The Sedona community continues to thrive with strong contributor engagement and growing visibility. In the past quarter, several new contributors joined and actively submitted numerous PRs, reflected by the sharp increase in activity across the issues and dev mailing lists. The newly launched SedonaDB repository gained over 300 GitHub stars within two months, demonstrating strong community interest. In recognition of outstanding contributions, we added two new committers and one new PMC member to the project.
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing. high activities. Issues for the board: No issues. ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (3 years ago) There are currently 22 committers and 18 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Furqaan Khan on 2024-08-20. - No new committers. Last addition was Feng Zhang on 2025-03-31. ## Project Activity: We released Sedona 1.7.2 in July this year as a maintenance update. Our next major release, 1.8.0, is planned for next month. We are actively working on the following key features for Sedona 1.8.0: 1. Java 11 support 2. Geography type and operators 3. Spark 4.0 support 4. GeoPandas API integration with Sedona 5. PyFlink support 6. More accurate ST_Transform ## Community Health: The community remains healthy. We recently transitioned from the JIRA ticket system to GitHub Issues to improve collaboration with new contributors. Several new contributors joined the project over the summer and made significant contributions. We also moved all PR notifications from the dev mailing list to the issues mailing list, so you may notice a significant change in traffic between the two lists.
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Project Status: Current project status: ongoing Issues for the board: all good ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (2 years ago) There are currently 22 committers and 18 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Furqaan Khan on 2024-08-20. - Feng Zhang was added as committer on 2025-03-31 ## Project Activity: We made a new release of Sedona, 1.7.0, on March 16, 2025. It introduces several major enhancements for spatial analytics and interoperability. Highlights include a new SQL interface for geospatial statistics with functions like ST_DBSCAN, ST_GLocal, and ST_LocalOutlierFactor [SEDONA-689], and support for broadcast joins in distributed KNN joins [SEDONA-690]. This release improves DataFrame integration with GeoArrow-enhanced GeoPandas I/O and exposes spatial partitioning structures for optimized GeoParquet writing [SEDONA-695]. It also adds native readers for STAC catalogs [SEDONA-704] and OpenStreetMap PBF files [SEDONA-713], boosts rasterization performance [SEDONA-707], and introduces new spatial functions like ST_RemoveRepeatedPoints. ## Community Health: The Sedona community remains active and healthy, with a strong focus on development and collaboration. In the past quarter, the project saw a 65% increase in code commits (443 total), reflecting vibrant technical discussions and issue tracking. GitHub activity remains steady with nearly 100 PRs opened and closed, and 19 contributors actively participating in the project.
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Project Status: Current project status: The project is ongoing. Issues for the board: No issues here. ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (2 years ago) There are currently 21 committers and 18 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Furqaan Khan on 2024-08-20. - Pranav Toggi was added as committer on 2025-01-10 ## Project Activity: Sedona 1.7.0 release was made in December 2024. This release is a major release that includes new features, improvements, bug fixes, API breaking changes, and behavior changes. 6 new people contributed to this release. A few important updates in this release: (1) Add a new join algorithm for distributed K Nearest Neighbor Join and a corresponding ST_KNN function (2) Add new spatial statistics algorithms DBSCAN, Local Outlier Factor, and Getis Ord Hot Spot Analysis (3) Add new DataFrame based readers for Shapefile, and GeoPackage. We will make a new minor release 1.7.1 in a few weeks. ## Community Health: The community is thriving! We’re encouraging contributors to use GitHub issues instead of JIRA, leading to a surge in activity. As a result, we’re seeing more GitHub issues opened and a growing number of code contributors.
No report was submitted.
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Project Status: Current project status: The project is being actively maintained. Several people joined the community and started to contribute. We also follow the 3-month release cadence to bring more features to production. Issues for the board: All good here ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (2 years ago) There are currently 19 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Kristin Cowalcijk on 2023-04-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Furqaan Khan on 2024-02-09. ## Project Activity: We made 3 new releases in May: 1.5.2, 1.5.3, and 1.6.0 The next release will be 1.6.1 which will be out this week. In these releases, we introduced several important features: (1) raster functions (2) 50 more vector geometry functions (3) new native geojson reader and writer. This makes Sedona by far the most comprehensive cluster compute engine for spatial data. ## Community Health: The community is active. Several new members joined the community and started to contribute. We plan to invite at least 1 committer and PMC member to Sedona in the coming weeks. The downloads of Sedona is also growing. Now our monthly has reached 1.5M per month.
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: No issues ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (a year ago) There are currently 19 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Kristin Cowalcijk on 2023-04-04. - Furqaan Khan was added as committer on 2024-02-09 ## Project Activity: We just made a new release of Sedona: 1.5.2. This is a maintenance release that fixes a bunch of bugs. Another release 1.6.0 will be released in 1 week, which is exciting. ## Community Health: The community is pretty healthy this quarter. Several new contributors joined the community. One reason is that we started to organize Apache Sedona monthly office hour. In the office hours, we discuss the new features and bug fixes in upcoming releases. Community members also join the call and share their experience of using Sedona.
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing: with high activities and several active contributors Issues for the board: all good ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (a year ago) There are currently 19 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Kristin Cowalcijk on 2023-04-04. - Furqaan Khan was added as committer on 2024-02-09 ## Project Activity: The project is very active. We made a new release in January 2024 with the help of several contributors. We currently keep the 3-month release cadence. The overall downloads of this project have exceeded 24 millions. ## Community Health: The community is healthy. Several people actively contribute to the project and new contributors also joined. We also added a new committer to this project. Recently we have been focusing on the improvement of raster data management capability.
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: None ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (a year ago) There are currently 18 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Kristin Cowalcijk on 2023-04-04. - Nilesh Gajwani was added as committer on 2023-09-11 ## Project Activity: We recently made the 1.5.0 release on Oct 12. This is a major release consisting of many new raster processing functions and new geospatial visualization plugins. ## Community Health: The community is pretty active and the project received quite a lot PRs. One thing to note is that the number of code contributors is less than before. We need to think about how to engage more people to contribute.
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing Issues for the board: No issues so far ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (8 months ago) There are currently 17 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Kristin Cowalcijk on 2023-04-04. - No new committers. Last addition was Kristin Cowalcijk on 2023-04-05. ## Project Activity: We release Sedona 1.4.1 on June 24 2023. Our current release cadence is about 1 release per 3 month and a major release (with potential API changes) every 6 month. In terms of project development, in the past quarter, Sedona received over 200 PRs which is 60% increase. ## Community Health: Our community is pretty healthy. In terms of adoption, our monthly downloads have exceed 1M and overall downloads have exceed 18M. In terms of contributors, our total number of contributors is now 107.
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (5 months ago) There are currently 17 committers and 17 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - Kristin Cowalcijk was added to the PMC on 2023-04-04 - Kristin Cowalcijk was added as committer on 2023-04-05 ## Project Activity: We released Sedona 1.4.0 on 03/19. 1.4.0 is the first release since Sedona became a top level project and includes many existing features such as native GeoParquet support and fast serializer. We are now working towards the next maintenance release 1.4.1 and the major release 1.5.0. Our goal in the next few releases is to refactor Sedona to a unified structure which adds comprehensive geospatial analytics support to many big data engines including Snowflake, BigQueries and so on. ## Community Health: The community is pretty healthy in general. But we do observed a significant decrease on new JIRA tickets. This is mainly because the infra team has disabled the self-signup of JIRAs. We also need to attract more contributors to Sedona.
## Description: The mission of Apache Sedona is the creation and maintenance of software related to a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data ## Issues: Currently, we don't have any issues. We are aware of the discussion of potential naming and branding issues of Apache Sedona. ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (3 months ago) There are currently 16 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members (project graduated recently). - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: 1. We plan to release Sedona 1.4.0 in one week. 2. Since the last report, the community spent lots of efforts on Sedona R binding improvement. The previous main contributor of Sedona R is no longer active and a new community member takes over and puts lots of efforts here. 3. The community also spent efforts on fixing the styling and doc errors. This will make the entire source code easy to read and maintain. ## Community Health: I cannot see the community health metrics due to some unknown reasons. Anyway, I collected the statistics myself. We have 8 active contributors made 37 commits to the Sedona repo. We have lots of activities on our mailing list, JIRA tickets and GitHub issues. In total, we had around 150 messages over all these channels.
## Description: Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data. Sedona extends existing cluster computing systems, such as Apache Spark and Apache Flink, with a set of out-of-the-box distributed Spatial Datasets and Spatial SQL that efficiently load, process, and analyze large-scale spatial data across machines. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention ## Membership Data: Apache Sedona was founded 2022-12-20 (a month ago) There are currently 16 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members (project graduated recently). - No new committers were added. ## Project Activity: The community recently implemented or is implementing a few important features that will significantly improve the performance and adoption of Sedona. 1. Full GeoParquet format support. Sedona now can read / write GeoParquet files in GeoParquet Standard 1.0.0. It also supports the important filter pushdown function for GeoParquet. 2. H3 and S2 indexing support. With this implementation, Sedona might have better spatial join performance in some cases. This will also make it possible to support spatial join in streaming environments. ## Community Health: Overall the community is healthy. The mailing list is active and commits and PRs are normal. However, since ASF JIRA no longer allows self-signup, we observed a significant decline on issue reporting. Lots of new users of Sedona usually create tickets on JIRA but now they have to ask Sedona PMC to create an account first, which might discourage them to participate. Therefore, Sedona recently re-enabled the GitHub issue function. Let's see if this can help.
No report was submitted.
Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data. Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Make sure all PPMC vote the next release with detailed items 2. Make sure all PPMC have their GitHub account connected to ASF ID> 3. ### 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? We continue to receive lots of traction from users and we keep answering questions in Gitter chat and mailing list ### How has the project developed since the last report? We made a release in August and have added lots of new features since then. We plan to release the next version this month. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [X] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: 2022-08-30 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2022-08-31 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? All good here ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? All good here ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung Comments: Community has gone through two rounds of graduation votes - it will be a good idea to set out the plan on getting to graduation, laying out the items to be resolved etc. - [X] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall Comments: - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling Comments: near to graudation, come on. - [ ] (sedona) Sunil G Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data. Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. All issues are fixed. 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? Our last release in general@incubator took 3 weeks to pass. Not many people are casting their votes. ### How has the community developed since the last report? Our monthly downloads have reached over 800K. We now have 82 contributors and 10 PPMC members. ### How has the project developed since the last report? We had 1 more release (1.2.1) and 1 more release manager. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [X] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: 2022-08-30 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2022-08-16 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. Our mentors Jean-Baptiste Onofré and Von Gosling are little too busy and hence are not very responsive. But since we will graduate soon, this is not an issue. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Yes, the VP has approved the project name. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung Comments: - [X] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: I was busy during summer vacation time. I will be more active in this podling in the future. - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall Comments: - [x] (sedona) Von Gosling Comments: It's lucky to cast the last vote in the latest release ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data. Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Self-assessment for graduation 2. More contributors 3. More release managers ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? All good ### How has the community developed since the last report? The monthly downloads have reached record high, around 500K downloads per month ### How has the project developed since the last report? All good here. We received lots of PRs from new contributors. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [X] Initial setup - [X] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [X] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: 2022-04-16 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 2022-03-04 ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? All good here ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? All good here ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung Comments: - [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall Comments: - [ ] (sedona) Von Gosling Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data. Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Inviting new committers and PMC members 2. Find alternative release manager 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? All good here ### How has the community developed since the last report? The community is growing fast. Our releases under the ASF brand now have reached 400k downloads per month. ### How has the project developed since the last report? We published one more release 1.1.0-incubating in October. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [X] Initial setup - [X] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [X] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: 2021-10-06 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? N/A ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? All good here. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? All good here. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung Comments: - [X] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall Comments: - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data. Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Find alternative release manager 2. Fix the data copyright issue occurred in test data 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? ### How has the community developed since the last report? All good here. We have active users on Gitter and mailing list ### How has the project developed since the last report? We successfully published our second release Apache Sedona 1.0.1-incubating ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [X] Initial setup - [X] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: 2021-05-25 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? N/A ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? All good here ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? No answer. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung Comments: - [X] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall Comments: - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data. Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Need several release managers. 2. Currently, Jia is the release manager Complete IP clearance is not done yet. 3. Website may not be fully compliant with Apache guidelines ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? N/A ### How has the community developed since the last report? All good here. We are interacting with our users through dev@s.a.o and Gitter ### How has the project developed since the last report? 1. We published our first release Sedona 1.0.0. 2. We added several patches after the first release according to the community feedback ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ X] Initial setup - [ X] Working towards first release - [ X] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: 2021-02-06 ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. All good here ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? All good here ### Signed-off-by: - [x] (sedona) Felix Cheung Comments: - [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall Comments: - [ ] (sedona) Von Gosling Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to
use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process
geospatial data.
Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Need several release managers. Currently, Jia is the release manager
2. Complete IP clearance is not done yet.
3. Website, documentations and the release process may not be fully
compliant with Apache guidelines.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
N/A
### How has the community developed since the last report?
All good here. We are interacting with our users through dev@s.a.o and
Gitter
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We have added a number of new functions to Sedona (see Sedona JIRA:
https://s.apache.org/yz865)
We have changed the Sedona project structure, file headers and class names
to make sure it follows the guidelines.
The first release (Apache Sedona 1.0.0-incubating RC1) has passed the
community vote and is now being voted by IPMC.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
N/A
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
All good here
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
All good here
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung
Comments: very close on the first release. community growth will be a
good focus next.
- [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments:
- [ ] (sedona) George Percivall
Comments:
- [X] (sedona) Von Gosling
Comments: Keep moving, very close to the first release after podling.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data. Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. We are still working on the first release 2. 3. ### 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? We are doing good here. We received many questions via emails and on Gitter chat. ### How has the project developed since the last report? We have made several PR to prepare the first release. This includes the name change in the paths and classes, update dependencies in core, sql, viz and python. We are also working on the documentation updates. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [X] Initial setup - [X] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: N/A ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? The last time when we added committers or PPMC is July 2020. It is when we submitted our proposal. ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Yes, all good here. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? We haven't seen any ongoing issues regarding this matter. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung Comments: Good progress on the first release. Looking forward to it. - [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall Comments: - [ ] (sedona) Von Gosling Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data. Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1.The name change in the source code 2.The first release 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? N/A ### How has the community developed since the last report? The community has been active in the past month. We have received emails and Gitter chats from many users. The GitHub repo also received more stars. However, we notice that, since we close the "Issues" function on GitHub, many users seem not to post questions to JIRA and mailing list. Some of them chose to send emails directly to the committers. We would like to figure out a way to guide the users to the right channel. ### How has the project developed since the last report? Since the last report, we have published our new project website under the Apache domain: http://sedona.apache.org/ We have almost finished our first big PR under the new name, Sedona: https://github.com/apache/incubator-sedona/pull/484 The development progress was kind of blocked by this PR. We believe once this PR is accepted, we will move much faster. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [X] Initial setup - [X] Working towards first release - [ ] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: N/A ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? The last time when we added committers or PPMC is July 2020. It is when we submitted our proposal. ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Yes, all good here. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? We haven't seen any ongoing issues regarding this matter. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung Comments: New website looks great - [X] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: Good progress on the bootstrapping and community build. - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall Comments: - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data. Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. We are still working on the initial setup. 2. 3. ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? N/A ### How has the community developed since the last report? The community has been active since the last report. We have started to use the mailing list to exchange ideas of different development issues in Sedona. Several contributors, users and committers have joined the discussion on the mailing list dev@ It is also worth noting that we are still working on importing the code into the incubator ASF GitHub repo. It took us several weeks to collect CLAs and SGAs from the major participating parties. I believe we have collected sufficient evidence to prove that the artifact is ready to be imported and the secretary has confirmed the CLA and SGA. We just created a JIRA ticket for the infra team and are waiting for them to import our codebase into ASF GitHub: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-20786 ### How has the project developed since the last report? The project made a good progress. In the past month, we accepted several patches from Kengo Seki and Sachio Wakai. In the meantime, Committer Netanel is working on a large PR to replace a 3rd party dependency JTSplus with JTS in order to improve the performance. Committer Pawel is working on another large PR to carry out the Sedona Python support for Spark 3.0. ### 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? The last time when we added committers or PPMC is July 2020. It is when we submitted our proposal. ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. Yes, mentors are very helpful throughout the process. We exchanged many emails recently to solve the CLA and SGA issues. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? We haven't seen any ongoing issues regarding this matter. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung Comments: good to see the progress in the community. I see source is imported - [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall Comments: - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Sedona is a big geospatial data processing engine. It provides an easy to use APIs for spatial data scientists to manage, wrangle, and process geospatial data. Sedona has been incubating since 2020-07-19. ### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Podling bootstrap: initial code import, name search 2. New website and branding 3. Community growth ### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? N/A ### How has the community developed since the last report? N/A ### How has the project developed since the last report? Good progress on bootstrap, LDAP and DNS created, JIRA created, git repo created, mailing lists created. 5 PPMC CLA submitted, account created and added to the roster of Sedona. We have removed all incompatible 3rd party library dependencies in the old codebase. Now we are waiting for another committer to submit the CLA and then the code will be imported to ASF Git repo. ### 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: We are still bootstrapping. ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? N/A ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any open issues that need to be addressed. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name? Not yet, we are still doing the initial setup. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (sedona) Felix Cheung Comments: - [ ] (sedona) Jean-Baptiste Onofré Comments: - [ ] (sedona) George Percivall Comments: - [X] (sedona) Von Gosling Comments: ### IPMC/Shepherd notes: