Python releases post DataFusion 7.0.0 release

[jimexist]

Hi @alamb and @jorgecarleitao

I think we can probably publish a new version now. Any suggestions on how it'll be done?

[alamb]

Hi @Jimexist -- I don't have any specific suggestions but would be willing to help / assist with this process (as I am also somewhat interested in learning more about how the python integration and binding process works)

I think @houqp did the release last time https://pypi.org/project/datafusion/.

The maintainers are (I can invite you if you send me your username):

I removed some release instructions from datafusion here: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/1856/files but perhaps we can revive the content in this repo?

[jimexist]

Thanks for the info @alamb, my pypi account is https://pypi.org/user/etareduce/

@houqp any suggestions on creating a new release?

[houqp]

In the short run, we could just follow the instructions in the PR that was mentioned by @alamb . All we have to do is to push a git tag, then upload the wheel artifacts manually. The artifacts are built using github action, but we might need to adjust the tag pattern for this repo at https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-python/blob/368b50ed9662d5e93c70b539f94cceace685265e/.github/workflows/build.yml#L22. I don't think we need to create rc releases anymore unless someone feels strongly about this.

If you are interested in improving the process, I would recommend uncomment the automated release job at https://github.com/datafusion-contrib/datafusion-python/blob/368b50ed9662d5e93c70b539f94cceace685265e/.github/workflows/build.yml#L116. The apache way disallows automated release, but we don't have this restriction in the contrib repo anymore ;)

[alamb]

Thanks for the info @alamb, my pypi account is https://pypi.org/user/etareduce/

I sent an invite

[jimexist]

see #43