CASSPYTHON-17 Update DRIVER_NAME after donation to ASF

[absurdfarce]

Update DRIVER_NAME to something consistent with corresponding change to the Java driver

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR updates the driver-identification string sent in the Cassandra native protocol STARTUP message to reflect the project’s ASF donation and align naming with corresponding Java driver changes.

Changes:

• Update DRIVER_NAME from “DataStax Python Driver” to “Apache Cassandra Python Driver”.

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[absurdfarce]

A pretty simple one @bschoening but something we really need for 3.30.0. I'm going to kick off a Jenkins run just to make sure there isn't any weird regression here but I'd expect this to be pretty non-intrusive.

I'm also going to do some local testing, mainly to validate the same.

[absurdfarce]

Local testing of this change looks pretty good. Waiting for the Jenkins run to finish to confirm there isn't any kind of regression.

[absurdfarce]

@dineshjoshi pointed out that we should include an explicit indication of this change in the docs since users might be looking for this string in monitoring/management apps. An update to this effect is coming.

[absurdfarce]

Updates to docs are now included as well. I think this is ready for you whenever you have a sec @bschoening.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

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[Copilot]

After changing STARTUP's DRIVER_NAME, the DataStax Insights payload still hard-codes the old name (cassandra/datastax/insights/reporter.py:170 uses "DataStax Python Driver"). If Insights is expected to reflect the same driver identity change, this should be updated to match (or documented/justified if it must remain DataStax-branded).

Suggested change

	DRIVER_NAME, DRIVER_VERSION = 'Apache Cassandra Python Driver', sys.modules['cassandra'].__version__
	DRIVER_NAME = 'Apache Cassandra Python Driver'
	cassandra_module = sys.modules.get('cassandra')
	if cassandra_module is not None and hasattr(cassandra_module, '__version__'):
	DRIVER_VERSION = cassandra_module.__version__
	else:
	DRIVER_VERSION = 'unknown'

[absurdfarce]

We'll be removing Insights support entirely in a future release (see PYTHON-1415). This hasn't been slated for a release yet but I would like to get it in sooner rather than later... Insights support is just dead weight at the moment.

[bschoening]

+1