Hi! Similarly to my previous thead ( [DISCUSS] impala-shell only release (4.5.1?) ), I would like to create an impala-shell only release, but with a bit different versioning than last time.
For 4.5.1 two impala-shell alpha releases (a1, a2) and no proper releases were created. It was based on branch https://github.com/apache/impala/tree/branch-4.5.1 . This time I would not use a proper branch, just tag the commit used for impala-shell release. 1. create an Impala-shell release 4.6a1 from master and tag that version, e.g. impala-shell-4.6.0a1 2. after giving 4.6a1 some more testing, release impala-shell 4.6 and tag it similarly as the alpha The motivation is to quickly create a release that contains some important improvements (e.g. https://github.com/apache/impala/commit/8db91f044c1d9daae5a32cee63b1884893b21690 ). and not wait for impala 5.0. The last releases were long time ago (4.3.0 in 2023, 4.5a2 in 2025 Summer). Reasons for using sprecifically version 4.6.0: a. I think that calling it 4.6 is better than being 4.5 based as 4.5 is very far from current asf-master, and most likely we'll never create a 4.6 impala release (5.0 is already under consideration) b. on demand we can still create an impala-shell release on 4.5 line (for example if new features are needed with Python 2.7 which was dropped in the meantime) c. I don't want to call it 5.0 as 5.0 is under consideration, but not yet fully decided Regards, Csaba
