October 28, 2025

Monthly sync meeting summary for October 28, 2025

Apache Texera (Incubating) Sync Meeting Summary

Date: October 28, 2025

Texera PPMC: Chen Li, Jiadong Bai, Yunyan Ding, Ali Risheh, Chris Park, Xiaozhen Liu, Yicong Huang
Texera Mentors: Ian Maxon
Guests: David Yoon, Ryan Zhang, Carlos Berumen, Andy, Roger, Qizhi Tian, Meng Wang

Key progress was made across community tools, codebase organization, and new features.

Codebase Reorganization: The package naming has been updated from edu.uci.ics to org.apache.texera to reflect its Apache status.
GitHub Discussions: The team has started using the “Discussions on GitHub” feature to improve communication.
Wiki Migration: Old Wiki pages are being migrated to GitHub Discussions to consolidate information.
PR & Issue Templates: New templates have been implemented to improve the quality and consistency of pull requests and issue reports.

Distribution Directories: The necessary directories on dist.apache.org for both development and release have been created.
Docker Hub: The team is working with the ASF to set up an apache/texera registry on Docker Hub.

Admin Dashboard: The admin dashboard now shows active users.
New Operator: A strip chart visualization operator has been added.
Workflow Execution: The UI now displays the worker number for each operator during workflow execution, providing better insight into parallelism.

Thank you to all the contributors this month (excluding Committers and PPMC members):

Set up the official texera.apache.org website.
Prepare for the 6-month ASF review.
Continue with system improvements, including:
- Replacing Ingress and Envoy with Kong or Contour gateways.
- Developing an access control service.
- Working on the AI agent.
- Migrating scripts.