Proposal of ASF Board Report for 2025-09

[Xuanwo]

Description:

OpenDAL is an Open Data Access Layer that enables seamless interaction with
diverse storage services. Its development is guided by the vision “One Layer,
All Storage” and the following principles:

• Open Community
• Solid Foundation
• Fast Access
• Object Storage First
• Extensible Architecture

Project Status:

Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: None

Membership Data:

Apache OpenDAL was founded 2024-01-17 (a year ago)
There are currently 34 committers and 19 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:5.

Community changes, past quarter:

• Kingsword was added as committer on 2025-07-31

Project Activity:

• v0.54.0 was released on 2025-07-17
• v0.54.1 is ongoing.

Community Health:

Are there any risks to the sustainability of the project?

OpenDAL remains in excellent health. The core crate has nearly 1000 dependents
on github and is used in production by multiple database systems (Databend,
GreptimeDB, RisingWave) and tools
(e.g., sccache, Vector). Development velocity is steady, with one PRs merged
daily.

The OpenDAL PMC has decided to accept reqsign as a sub-project. The IP
clearance process has been completed, and the code has been imported. The
OpenDAL PMC is now working on building the first ASF release for
opendal-reqsign.

Is the PMC capable of responding to security issues and

performing releases if needed?

Yes. The PMC has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to quickly release fixes
and monthly tagged versions. Releases are made in a timely manner and
dependency hygiene is maintained actively.

Does the PMC need anything from the Foundation to improve on

contributing to our mission of delivering software for the public good?

No requests at this time.