Hi Everyone, I propose that we release the following RC as the official PyIceberg 0.6.0 release.
This is the second RC that patches: - Parquet compression is not being set (#345) - Remove the constraint on sort-orders (#349) - Issues when writing null-columns (#337, #348) Again, here's a summary of the high level features included in this release: * Write support for writing to unpartitioned tables * Includes snapshot generation * Constructing Avro writer trees * Support writing metadata which allows to commit support for the Hive, Sql, and Glue catalog. * Support for name-mapping * Easy evolution of schema using the union_by_name method * And a lot of bug fixes and improvements * Support for creating unpartitioned tables using PyArrow Schema The commit ID is 622adb799e1c5acb48be95ba14a670bafef54a61 * This corresponds to the tag: pyiceberg-0.6.0rc2 (547be51608fec6e3282bbc5350d788fcc17cdf1c) * https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/releases/tag/pyiceberg-0.6.0rc2 * https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/tree/622adb799e1c5acb48be95ba14a670bafef54a61 The release tarball, signature, and checksums are here: * https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/iceberg/pyiceberg-0.6.0rc2/ You can find the KEYS file here: * https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/iceberg/KEYS Convenience binary artifacts are staged on pypi: https://pypi.org/project/pyiceberg/0.6.0rc2/ And can be installed using: pip3 install pyiceberg==0.6.0rc2 Please download, verify, and test. Please vote in the next 72 hours. [ ] +1 Release this as PyIceberg 0.6.0 [ ] +0 [ ] -1 Do not release this because...