python: archive the retired adbc-driver-snowflake and adbc-driver-bigquery PyPI projects
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Description
The Snowflake and BigQuery Python packages are no longer built from this repo, but on PyPI they still look like current, maintained projects. Since PyPI now has a project-level archival marker, this can be fixed without cutting a release.
## Current state
`python/` on `main` contains only `adbc_driver_flightsql`, `adbc_driver_manager`, `adbc_driver_postgresql` and `adbc_driver_sqlite`. #4282 ("remove Go Snowflake driver and Rust, Python, R, deb/yum packages", merged 2026-05-07) removed the rest, per the plan in #4140, noting that active development moved to `adbc-drivers/snowflake`.
That PR mentions filing follow-ups to document the change, and its post-merge checklist covers removing the Snowflake CI secrets. As far as I can find, the state of the published PyPI projects isn't tracked anywhere, which is why I'm opening this rather than adding to an existing thread.
On PyPI, as of today:
| Project | Latest | Uploaded | Releases | Classifiers | Yanked | `project-status` |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `adbc-driver-snowflake` | 1.11.0 | 2026-04-07 | 21 | none | none | `active` |
| `adbc-driver-bigquery` | 1.11.0 | 2026-04-07 | 9 | none | none | `active` |
Neither description mentions dbc, the Driver Foundry, or that the package is no longer maintained here. So `pip`, `uv`, Dependabot, Renovate and SBOM tooling all report them as healthy — which by every signal they can read, they are. A user who installs `adbc-driver-snowflake` today gets a package whose last release is terminal, with nothing indicating that.
## Suggested fix
[PyPI project archival](https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-01-30-archival/) landed in January 2025 and is standardised as [PEP 792](https://peps.python.org/pep-0792/). It's project-level, self-service, needs no release, and per the announcement, "archiving a project does not remove it from the index, and does not prevent users from installing it." PyPI serves the marker in the Simple API, so tooling can eventually consume it.
Order matters, because archival blocks new uploads:
1. Update each project's description to say the maintained path is now `dbc` / the Driver Foundry, with a link.
2. Archive both projects.
3. Optionally set `Development Status :: 7 - Inactive`, though nothing in the resolver chain reads classifiers today.
I'd suggest *not* yanking. Yanking is for broken releases, and these aren't broken — they work fine, they're just final. Yanked files also still install when someone pins an exact version, so it wouldn't achieve much beyond confusing people who have pinned.
## Who can do this
Only whoever holds the PyPI project role for these two, acting for the foundation. I'm raising it here because it's the sort of task that falls between two groups and doesn't get picked up: from the outside it looks like it might be the Foundry's to handle, but the projects are published under `dev@arrow.apache.org` out of this repo, so it isn't.
Happy to send a PR for the description text if that helps, though the archival step itself needs someone with the PyPI permissions.
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