January 27, 2026

Monthly sync meeting summary for January 27, 2026

Texera Apache Incubation – Monthly Meeting Minutes

Date: January 27, 2026
Participants:

Texera Mentors: Ian Maxon
Texera Team/Guests: Chen Li, Ali Risheh, David Yoon, Xuan Gu, Andy, Chris Park, Jiadong Bai, Xiaozhen Liu, Yicong Huang, Yunyan Ding, Shengquan Ni

Multipart Upload Redirection:
- The team is implementing a redirection of multipart uploads through the File Service (Issue #4136).
- The architecture utilizes an Angular proxy to handle requests and manage file metadata during the upload session initialization.
Big Object Support:
- Support for Big Objects in Python UDFs is being implemented (Issue #4100).
- The design involves a Computing Unit Master JVM and interacts with MinIO for object storage and Iceberg for table management.
- A Lifecycle Manager is included to handle deletion and object management.

Materialized Execution Mode:
- A new “Materialized” execution mode has been introduced (Issue #4158).
- Users can toggle between “Pipelined” and “Materialized” modes in the settings panel.
CI/CD Automation:
- GitHub Actions have been added to Docker images to facilitate automatic pushing (Issue #4055).
- The workflow supports building for specific target platforms (e.g., “both”) and includes options to enable R support.

Dataset Customization:
- Support has been added for custom cover images on datasets (Issue #4117).
Documentation:
- Design documentation for operators is being developed, including detailed property tables for operators like the Bar Chart.
- Efforts are underway to automate document videos.

New Contributors (Jan 2026):
- Carlos Ernesto Alvarez Berumen
- Xuan Gu
- Jae Yun Kim
- GitHub developer “LJX2017”

The team will focus on the following items moving forward: