+1 (non-binding) Thank you for working on this!
On 2026-10-02 22:23 UTC rahul mahadev wrote: > [Reopning voting after going through reviews from @adutra] > > Hi all, > > Following the discussion thread [1], I'd like to call a vote on > standardizing the client User-Agent format in the REST catalog spec. > > What a +1 endorses: > - Clients identify themselves with the standard HTTP User-Agent header > (RFC 7231): whitespace-separated product/version tokens, most specific > first (engine, then any integration or connector, then the Iceberg > library, then the runtime), with an optional parenthesized comment for > extra context. Example: > > Spark/4.0.0 iceberg-spark/1.9.0 iceberg-java/1.9.0 (scala 2.13.16) > > - When the header is sent, the Iceberg library token (iceberg-java, > pyiceberg, iceberg-rust, iceberg-go) must be present. > - The header is advisory. Servers must not reject a request just because > it is missing or malformed, and must not use it for authentication. > Servers may refuse operations from client versions known to be unsafe. > It is not a capability negotiation mechanism. > > The spec change is in PR [2]. If the vote passes, the follow-ups are > conforming the client libraries (java, python, rust, go) to emit this > format. > > > [ ] +1 Adopt this User-Agent format in the REST spec > [ ] 0 > [ ] -1 Do not adopt (please explain) > > Thanks, > Rahul > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/d6hkx66o8qc1lolh11l1lmswxlq0bpj9 > [2] https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/17727 >
