Skip to content

Docs: Consolidate feature proposal content into roadmap #17156

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 2 commits into from
Aug 15, 2025

Conversation

alamb
Copy link
Contributor

@alamb alamb commented Aug 12, 2025

Which issue does this PR close?

Rationale for this change

We are discussing making it easier to find current DataFusion proposals (and by extension make it easier to understand how to propose new features)

To begin this process, I would like to create a space in the documentation for these new proposals, before we actually implement them.

What changes are included in this PR?

Consolidate content about proposing features and finding active epics into the roadmap.md doc

Note I DID NOT make any changes to the content in this PR -- I figured we can do the mechanical movement first and then work on a consensus discussion

Are these changes tested?

BY CI

Are there any user-facing changes?

Doc content moves

@github-actions github-actions bot added the documentation Improvements or additions to documentation label Aug 12, 2025

[good-first-issue]: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22

### Open Contribution and Assigning tickets

DataFusion is an open contribution project, and thus there is no particular
project imposed deadline for completing any issue or any restriction on who can
work on an issue, nor how many people can work on an issue at the same time.
project imposed deadline for completing issues or restrictions on who can
Copy link
Contributor Author

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

drive by cleanup

@@ -62,72 +63,6 @@ unable to make progress you should unassign the issue by using the `unassign me`
link at the top of the issue page (and ask for help if are stuck) so that
someone else can get involved in the work.

### Discussing New Features
Copy link
Contributor Author

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

I just moved this content out from a sub bullet and into a more discoverable place on Roadmap

Copy link
Member

@xudong963 xudong963 left a comment

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

This is a great step for our contributor guide, love it

@alamb alamb merged commit a2f84f3 into apache:main Aug 15, 2025
5 checks passed
@alamb
Copy link
Contributor Author

alamb commented Aug 15, 2025

Thank you @comphead and @xudong963

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
documentation Improvements or additions to documentation
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

3 participants