Re: ASF board report draft for May

2024-05-06 Thread Matei Zaharia
I’ll mention that we’re working toward a preview release, even if the details are not finalized by the time we sent the report. > On May 6, 2024, at 10:52 AM, Holden Karau wrote: > > I trust Wenchen to manage the preview release effectively but if there are > concerns around how to manage a

Re: ASF board report draft for May

2024-05-06 Thread Holden Karau
I trust Wenchen to manage the preview release effectively but if there are concerns around how to manage a developer preview release lets split that off from the board report discussion. On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 10:44 AM Mich Talebzadeh wrote: > I did some historical digging on this. > > Whilst

Re: ASF board report draft for May

2024-05-06 Thread Mich Talebzadeh
I did some historical digging on this. Whilst both preview release and RCs are pre-release versions, the main difference lies in their maturity and readiness for production use. Preview releases are early versions aimed at gathering feedback, while release candidates (RCs) are nearly finished

Re: ASF board report draft for May

2024-05-06 Thread Mich Talebzadeh
@Wenchen Fan Thanks for the update! To clarify, is the vote for approving a specific preview build, or is it for moving towards an RC stage? I gather there is a distinction between these two? Mich Talebzadeh, Technologist | Architect | Data Engineer | Generative AI | FinCrime London United

Re: ASF board report draft for May

2024-05-06 Thread Holden Karau
If folks are against the term soon we could say “in-progress” Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau Books (Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, etc.): https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9 YouTube Live Streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/holdenkarau On Mon, May 6, 2024 at

Re: ASF board report draft for May

2024-05-06 Thread Mich Talebzadeh
Hi, We should reconsider using the term "soon" for ASF board as it is subjective with no date (assuming this is an official communication on Wednesday). We ought to say "Spark 4, the next major release after Spark 3.x, is currently under development. We plan to make a preview version available

Re: ASF board report draft for May

2024-05-06 Thread Wenchen Fan
The preview release also needs a vote. I'll try my best to cut the RC on Monday, but the actual release may take some time. Hopefully, we can get it out this week but if the vote fails, it will take longer as we need more RCs. On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 7:22 AM Dongjoon Hyun wrote: > +1 for

Re: ASF board report draft for May

2024-05-05 Thread Dongjoon Hyun
+1 for Holden's comment. Yes, it would be great to mention `it` as "soon". (If Wenchen release it on Monday, we can simply mention the release) In addition, Apache Spark PMC received an official notice from ASF Infra team. https://lists.apache.org/thread/rgy1cg17tkd3yox7qfq87ht12sqclkbg >

Re: ASF board report draft for May

2024-05-05 Thread Holden Karau
Do we want to include that we’re planning on having a preview release of Spark 4 so folks can see the APIs “soon”? Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau Books (Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, etc.): https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9 YouTube Live Streams:

ASF board report draft for May

2024-05-05 Thread Matei Zaharia
It’s time for our quarterly ASF board report on Apache Spark this Wednesday. Here’s a draft, feel free to suggest changes. Description: Apache Spark is a fast and general purpose engine for large-scale data processing. It offers high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python, R

ASF board report draft for May 2023

2023-05-09 Thread Matei Zaharia
It’s time to send our ASF board report again on May 10th. I’ve put together this draft — let me know whether to add anything else. Issues for the board: - None Project status: - We released Apache Spark 3.4 on April 13th, a feature release with over 2600 patches.

ASF board report draft for May 2022

2022-05-10 Thread Matei Zaharia
Hi all, It’s time to submit our quarterly ASF board report again this Wednesday. I’ve put together the draft below. Let me know if you have any suggestions: === Description: Apache Spark is a fast and general purpose engine for large-scale data processing. It offers

ASF board report draft for May

2021-05-10 Thread Matei Zaharia
It’s time for our quarterly report to the ASF board, which we need to submit on Wednesday. I’ve put together the following draft based on activity in the community — let me know if you’d like to add or change anything: == Description: Apache Spark is a fast

ASF board report draft for May

2020-05-11 Thread Matei Zaharia
Hi all, Our quarterly project board report needs to be submitted on May 13th, and I wanted to include anything notable going on that we want to appear in the board archive. Here is my draft below — let me know if you have suggested changes. ===