Project Management Committee (PMC)¶
A PMC member is a maintainer who has demonstrated leadership in the project. The PMC guides the long-term direction, makes decisions on governance and project changes, and protects the Lance brand.
Rights¶
In addition to the rights of maintainers, PMC members have the following rights:
- Binding vote on governance process and structure modifications
- Binding vote on changes in maintainers and PMC rosters
- Binding vote on core and subproject management decisions
- Binding vote on stable releases of core and subprojects
- Binding vote on Lance format specification modifications
- Access to the private mailing list
Activities¶
In addition to the activities of maintainers, PMC members are encouraged to:
- Provide guidance on the long-term direction of the project
- Make decisions on governance and project changes
- Protect the Lance brand
- Execute binding votes for stable releases
- Evaluate and respond to security vulnerabilities
Roster¶
| Name | GitHub Handle | Affiliation | Ecosystem Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yang Cen | BubbleCal | LanceDB | Milvus Contributor |
| Pablo Delgado | pablete | Netflix | |
| Hao Ding | Xuanwo | LanceDB | Apache OpenDAL PMC Chair, Apache Iceberg Committer, Apache Member and more |
| Zhaowei Huang | SaintBacchus | Alibaba | Apache Doris Committer |
| Will Jones | wjones127 | LanceDB | Apache Arrow PMC Member, Apache DataFusion PMC Member, Delta Lake Maintainer |
| Matt Kafonek | kafonek | RunwayML | |
| Denny Lee | dennyglee | Databricks | Unity Catalog Maintainer, Delta Lake Maintainer, Apache Spark Contributor, MLflow Contributor |
| Rob Meng | chebbyChefNEQ | Jump Trading | |
| Dao Mi | dowjones226 | Netflix | |
| Weston Pace | westonpace | LanceDB | Apache Arrow PMC Member, Substrait SMC Member |
| Calvin Qi | calvinqi | Harvey.ai | |
| Prashanth Rao | prrao87 | LanceDB | |
| Ethan Rosenthal | EthanRosenthal | RunwayML | |
| Tim Saucer | timsaucer | ReRun.io | Apache DataFusion PMC Member |
| Chang She | changhiskhan | LanceDB | Pandas Co-Author |
| Jasmine Wang | onigiriisabunny | LanceDB | Alluxio PMC Community Manager |
| Lei Xu | eddyxu | LanceDB | Apache Hadoop PMC Member |
| Vino Yang | yanghua | Bytedance | Apache Hudi PMC Member, Apache Kyuubi PMC Member, Apache Kylin Committer, Apache Incubation Program Committer |
| Jack Ye | jackye1995 | LanceDB | Apache Iceberg PMC Member, Apache Polaris (incubating) PPMC Member, Apache Incubation Program Committer |
Becoming a PMC Member¶
PMC membership is earned through:
- Significant leadership in the project
- Long-term sustained contributions to Lance
- Active mentorship of other contributors
- Demonstrated commitment to project values
- Get nominated by a PMC member and approved through a passing vote