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Apache Texera (Incubating) Sync Meeting - Jan 2026

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1/27/2026, 3 - 4 pm, PT

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Attendees

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  • Texera mentors: Ian Maxon
  • Texera team/guests: Chen Li, Ali Risheh, David Yoon, Xuan Gu, Andy, Chris Park, Jiadong Bai, Xiaozhen Liu, Yicong Huang, Yunyan Ding, Shengquan Ni

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Supporting Big Objects for Python UDF

#4100

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Introduce materialized execution mode

#4158

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Redirect multipart upload through File Service

#4136

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Add custom cover image support for datasets

#4117

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Add Github actions to automatically push Docker images

#4055

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Design documentation for operators

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Automating document videos

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Jan. 2026 Contributors�(excluding Committers and PPMC members)

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  • Carlos Ernesto Alvarez Berumen <carloea2@uci.edu>
  • Xuan Gu <xuang7@uci.edu>
  • Jae Yun Kim <jaeyk14@uci.edu>
  • GitHub developer: “LJX2017”

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Next steps

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  • Fixing license requirements by Whimsy
  • Supporting control blocks
  • Enabling operator caching
  • Support resumable upload

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Thank you for your attendance!

Apache Podling-Texera Sync Meeting

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