Auron

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17 Dec 2025 ¶

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:

24 Sep 2025 ¶

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: