Hi, I'm glad to see many positive reactions and information new to me. Thank you!
We should probably discuss which repository to use for this new purpose. I believe we can reuse apache/hive as long as we use a proper tag name. It is also an option to use apache/hive-nightly or something like Apache Solr. I am currently biased toward having a separate repository, i.e., apache/hive-nightly, for two reasons. From Docker users' perspective, pushing all in a single repo will likely obscure stable tags such as 4.2.0. From the committers' perspective, separating a repo would make management tasks, such as expiring old images, easier and safer. It's not a strong opinion. Once it's decided, I can try to create a pull request (and an INFRA ticket if we need a new repo), and we can discuss other details, such as naming conventions or frequency, there. Best, Okumin On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 4:39 PM Ayush Saxena <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1. > > I believe there is a policy covering this (likely in the incubator > documentation), though I can’t locate it at the moment. As far as I remember, > publishing such images is allowed provided they are suffixed with -SNAPSHOT > and do not use tags like latest. > > I’ll look for the exact reference and share it here once I find it. > > -Ayush > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 at 17:52, Attila Turoczy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> +1 >> do not want to repeat why it is important and valuable. Very cool idea! >> What is the next step to make it happen? :) >> >> -Attila >> >> On Sun, Feb 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM Denys Kuzmenko <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> +1 for the initiative! >>> >>> I think having nightly/snapshot Docker images would be really useful for >>> Hive developers. It allows quick testing of the latest master, easier >>> development of container-related features, and keeps the Docker build >>> pipeline actively tested.
