March 31, 2026

Texera Apache Incubation – Monthly Meeting Minutes

Date: March 31, 2026
Participants: Chen Li, Meng Wang, Ali Risheh, Jiadong Bai, Andy Zhang, Xiaozhen Liu, Chris Park, Xinyuan Lin, Xuan Gu, Zuozhi Wang

1. Technical Updates

UI and Features

• Affiliation/Joining Reason in Admin Emails (#4326):
  • The notification emails sent to admins for new account requests now include the user’s affiliation and reason for joining, giving admins more context (this data is collected by the registration form from #4185).
• Edit Description Button in Workspace (#4271):
  • A button was added in the workspace to edit a workflow’s description, opening the Markdown editor introduced in #4212.
• Email to Dev List on DDL Change (#4250):
  • An email is now sent automatically to the dev mailing list whenever there is a database schema (DDL) change.
• Dataset Detail Page Layout (#4337):
  • The dataset detail page layout was improved.

Licensing and Compliance

• Rewrite Stack Overflow Code Snippets (#4283):
  • All Stack Overflow references were removed from the source code to comply with ASF licensing policy (Stack Overflow content is CC-BY-SA, which is incompatible with the Apache License 2.0).
  • Code derived from Stack Overflow (e.g., a camelCase-to-title regex) was rewritten, and SO-referencing comments were replaced with self-contained explanations.

2. Apache Release Preparation

Preparing v1.1.0-incubating Release

Merged PRs that added example content to the Docker Compose setup, aligned service/container naming, and bundled the examples into the release-candidate tarball:

• feat: add example datasets and workflows to Docker Compose (#4247)
• refactor: align docker-compose service and container names with image names (#4249)
• fix(ci): include example datasets and workflows into the docker compose tarball when creating the release candidate (#4253)

A pending documentation PR replaced the placeholder README in the Docker Compose folder with the full setup guide from the project wiki:

• chore(docs): include the wiki instruction as the README in the docker compose folder (#4320)

3. Community

• Contributors (March 2026, excluding committers and PPMC members):
  • Carlos Ernesto Alvarez Berumen
  • Xuan Gu
  • Jae Yun Kim
  • Matthew George Ball
  • Seongjin Yoon
  • Grace Wanheng Chia

4. Next Steps

The team will focus on the following items moving forward:

• Fixing license requirements by Whimsy.
• Supporting control blocks.
• Enabling operator caching.