[IMPALA-4744] Apache Impala release should include release tag or hash in version string

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.8.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 3.0, Impala 2.13.0
• Component/s: Infrastructure
• Target Version: Product Backlog
• Assignee: Sailesh Mukil
• Reporter: Tim Armstrong
• Created: 09/Jan/17 17:42
• Updated: 20/Apr/18 20:21
• Resolved: 20/Apr/18 20:21

Description

If I build the Apache Impala release from a source tarball, I get this version string:

tarmstrong@tarmstrong-box:~/apache-impala-incubating-2.8.0/apache-impala-incubating-2.8.0$ impala-shell.sh 
INFO:bootstrap_virtualenv:Installing Kudu into the virtualenv
Starting Impala Shell without Kerberos authentication
Connected to localhost:21000
Server version: impalad version 2.8.0-RELEASE DEBUG (build Could not obtain git hash)

It would be nice if we had a way to put something more friendly in there, e.g. the release tag or the git hash.