Tracking issues of iceberg rust v0.4.0 Release

[sungwy]

This issue is used to track tasks of the iceberg rust 0.4.0 release.

Tasks

Blockers

Blockers are the tasks that must be completed before the release.

• Bug in PartialEq for Struct #706

The remaining issues listed under 0.4.0 Milestone do not seem like blockers, and could be tracked in the next release.

Build Release

GitHub Side

• Bump version in project
• Update docs
• Generate dependencies list
• Push release candidate tag to GitHub

ASF Side

• Create an ASF Release
• Upload artifacts to the SVN dist repo

Voting

• Start VOTE at iceberg community

Official Release

• Push the release git tag
• Verify iceberg-rust release in Cargo and pyiceberg-core releases in PyPi
• Publish artifacts to SVN RELEASE branch
• Change Iceberg Rust Website download link
• Send the announcement

For details of each step, please refer to: https://rust.iceberg.apache.org/release

[Xuanwo]

I believe we need something like https://github.com/apache/opendal/blob/main/scripts/release.py to help generate ASF source tarballs for core and python binding.

[c-thiel]

@sungwy I think we should add #694 to the blockers as well.
If we decide to not introduce a SchemalessPartitionSpec, we shouldn't release it as part of 0.4.0 as it would be a significant change to revert it.