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	Runway AI
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	Runway AI
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