Welcome to Delta Lake Incubator!

The Delta Lake project aims to unlock the power of the Delta Lake for as many users and projects as possible by providing native low-level APIs aimed at developers and integrators, as well as a high-level operations API that lets you query, inspect, and operate your Delta Lake with ease. The Delta Lake Incubator org provides a location to collaborate on projects which want to enter the Delta Lake project.

Please join the Delta Lake Slack for discussions; we also have a specific Incubator channel.

• Project should extend or enrich Delta Lake or the Delta Lake ecosystem
• Project should be open source or have a clear timeline to become open source
• Project must have a license of MIT or Apache Software License 2.0
• Project must be maintained by the person(s) proposing its inclusion in incubator. I.e. you cannot propose a project that's not "yours" to include
• Project must adhere to a code of conduct similar to the one used for delta itself contributor covenant

If you are interested in submitting your project to delta-incubator, please start a conversation in the contributors channel pointing to your personal github repo. It is recommended that your project:

• Refer to existing delta github issue (e.g., delta, delta-rs, etc.)
• Project has an existing PIP (Project Improvement Proposal) document
• Project is an already working project though early incubations will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

Project can graduate to the Delta Lake org following similar voting procedures.

• In general, the incubation project has been developed within delta-incubator for at least six (6) months

We adopt a practice of marking unmaintained projects as public archived (with a notice soliciting new maintainers in the README) if there is no maintainer for the incubation project for 6 months. We will follow the same voting procedures.

• A Delta maintainer will call a vote for at least 72h on the Incubator channel.
• The voting is open to the Delta community
• There must be at least three maintainers +1 votes with no -1 votes.
  • Note, as this is Slack, the +1 votes can be represented by green checkbox.