HIVE-28059: Iceberg REST Catalog

Hi Everyone; There were some discussions about the Iceberg Catalog REST API recently. On that subject, there is now a PR (5145 ) as a proposal for such a service that can live embedded within HMS. For users having Hive deployed, making this service hosted

Re: Retire https://apache.github.io sites

The work on HIVE-27953 is now completed so the github.io sites are officially down and the obsolete content is removed from the various repos. Many thanks Simhadri for leading all these efforts in modernising the Hive website and dealing with the legacy sites. Best, Stamatis On Wed, Mar 13,