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## 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.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, 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. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Sedona Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Sedona Project be and hereby is responsible for 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; and be it further RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Sedona" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Sedona Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Sedona Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Sedona Project: * Adam Binford <kimahriman@apache.org> * Felix Cheung <felixcheung@apache.org> * George Percivall <percivall@apache.org> * Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jbonofre@apache.org> * Jia Yu <jiayu@apache.org> * Jinxuan Wu <jinxuanw@apache.org> * Kanchan Chowdhury <kanchanchy@apache.org> * Kengo Seki <sekikn@apache.org> * Mo Sarwat <mosarwat@apache.org> * Netanel Malka <malka@apache.org> * Paweł Kociński <imbruced@apache.org> * Sachio Wakai <swakai@apache.org> * Sunil G <sunilg@apache.org> * Von Gosling <vongosling@apache.org> * Yitao Li <yitaoli@apache.org> * Zongsi Zhang <zongsizhang@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Jia Yu be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Sedona, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Sedona Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Incubator Sedona podling; and be it further RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Incubator Sedona podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator PMC are hereafter discharged. Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache Sedona Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
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: