Kafka releases - can they be more often please?

[Jaikiran Pai <ja...@gmail.com>]

Apologies in advance for continuously pestering about the releases. I 
know there was a mail sent out for voting the 0.8.2.2 release a couple 
of weeks back, but from what I see, the release is still pending. Any 
idea if this will be released the coming week?

Overall, I'm wondering whether a more quicker release cycle for Kafka 
would be a good idea. I know this is a open source community driven 
project and as such doesn't come with timeline guarantees. But since 
Kafka hasn't yet reached 1.0.0 and from our experience so far, shows 
some instability issues, would it perhaps be a good idea to release more 
often whenever good amount of bugs have been fixed? It's already been 6 
months since the last release and I already have seen a lot of bugs that 
have been fixed during that period, but there hasn't been an official 
release which we can use in our development systems and give it a try. 
We really like to continue using Kafka since it does add value to our 
system, but some of the issues we are running into is making us focus 
more on Kafka and the infrastructure than actually focus on the 
application integration of it. So having a release more often, which we 
can use with the bugs fixed, is really going to help.

Thanks to the Kafka dev team for the work they put in. I don't intend to 
sound critical about the project (we really like it). I'm just hoping 
that the releases happen more often.

-Jaikiran

Re: Kafka releases - can they be more often please?

[Jaikiran Pai <ja...@gmail.com>]

Thanks Jun! That works for us.

-Jaikiran
On Tuesday 22 September 2015 03:03 AM, Jun Rao wrote:
> 0.8.2.2 is already in maven (
> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.kafka/kafka_2.10/0.8.2.2) and
> the binary download can be found at
> https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/0.8.2.2/kafka-0.8.2.2-src.tgz
> . Since we are moving the website to another repository, the website is
> currently not updatable. We will send out an announcement as soon as the
> transition completes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jun
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Jaikiran Pai <ja...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Ewen. This helps partly but not fully since the Kafka runtime
>> itself isn't published to Maven (unless I looked up at the wrong place) and
>> thus we cannot boot up Kafka as a process, without the binaries available
>> somewhere.
>>
>> -Jaikiran
>>
>> On Monday 21 September 2015 10:41 AM, Ewen Cheslack-Postava wrote:
>>
>>> Just FYI, 0.8.2.2 is effectively released -- the jars are in Central and
>>> if
>>> you modify the 0.8.2.1 download URLs for 0.8.2.2 they should be there. I
>>> think the reason there hasn't been an official announcement is because the
>>> website transition may be holding things up.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Jaikiran Pai <ja...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Apologies in advance for continuously pestering about the releases. I know
>>>> there was a mail sent out for voting the 0.8.2.2 release a couple of
>>>> weeks
>>>> back, but from what I see, the release is still pending. Any idea if this
>>>> will be released the coming week?
>>>>
>>>> Overall, I'm wondering whether a more quicker release cycle for Kafka
>>>> would be a good idea. I know this is a open source community driven
>>>> project
>>>> and as such doesn't come with timeline guarantees. But since Kafka hasn't
>>>> yet reached 1.0.0 and from our experience so far, shows some instability
>>>> issues, would it perhaps be a good idea to release more often whenever
>>>> good
>>>> amount of bugs have been fixed? It's already been 6 months since the last
>>>> release and I already have seen a lot of bugs that have been fixed during
>>>> that period, but there hasn't been an official release which we can use
>>>> in
>>>> our development systems and give it a try. We really like to continue
>>>> using
>>>> Kafka since it does add value to our system, but some of the issues we
>>>> are
>>>> running into is making us focus more on Kafka and the infrastructure than
>>>> actually focus on the application integration of it. So having a release
>>>> more often, which we can use with the bugs fixed, is really going to
>>>> help.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to the Kafka dev team for the work they put in. I don't intend to
>>>> sound critical about the project (we really like it). I'm just hoping
>>>> that
>>>> the releases happen more often.
>>>>
>>>> -Jaikiran
>>>>
>>>>
>>>

Re: Kafka releases - can they be more often please?

[Jun Rao <ju...@confluent.io>]

0.8.2.2 is already in maven (
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.kafka/kafka_2.10/0.8.2.2) and
the binary download can be found at
https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/0.8.2.2/kafka-0.8.2.2-src.tgz
. Since we are moving the website to another repository, the website is
currently not updatable. We will send out an announcement as soon as the
transition completes.

Thanks,

Jun

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Jaikiran Pai <ja...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Thanks Ewen. This helps partly but not fully since the Kafka runtime
> itself isn't published to Maven (unless I looked up at the wrong place) and
> thus we cannot boot up Kafka as a process, without the binaries available
> somewhere.
>
> -Jaikiran
>
> On Monday 21 September 2015 10:41 AM, Ewen Cheslack-Postava wrote:
>
>> Just FYI, 0.8.2.2 is effectively released -- the jars are in Central and
>> if
>> you modify the 0.8.2.1 download URLs for 0.8.2.2 they should be there. I
>> think the reason there hasn't been an official announcement is because the
>> website transition may be holding things up.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Jaikiran Pai <ja...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Apologies in advance for continuously pestering about the releases. I know
>>> there was a mail sent out for voting the 0.8.2.2 release a couple of
>>> weeks
>>> back, but from what I see, the release is still pending. Any idea if this
>>> will be released the coming week?
>>>
>>> Overall, I'm wondering whether a more quicker release cycle for Kafka
>>> would be a good idea. I know this is a open source community driven
>>> project
>>> and as such doesn't come with timeline guarantees. But since Kafka hasn't
>>> yet reached 1.0.0 and from our experience so far, shows some instability
>>> issues, would it perhaps be a good idea to release more often whenever
>>> good
>>> amount of bugs have been fixed? It's already been 6 months since the last
>>> release and I already have seen a lot of bugs that have been fixed during
>>> that period, but there hasn't been an official release which we can use
>>> in
>>> our development systems and give it a try. We really like to continue
>>> using
>>> Kafka since it does add value to our system, but some of the issues we
>>> are
>>> running into is making us focus more on Kafka and the infrastructure than
>>> actually focus on the application integration of it. So having a release
>>> more often, which we can use with the bugs fixed, is really going to
>>> help.
>>>
>>> Thanks to the Kafka dev team for the work they put in. I don't intend to
>>> sound critical about the project (we really like it). I'm just hoping
>>> that
>>> the releases happen more often.
>>>
>>> -Jaikiran
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

Re: Kafka releases - can they be more often please?

[Jaikiran Pai <ja...@gmail.com>]

Thanks Ewen. This helps partly but not fully since the Kafka runtime 
itself isn't published to Maven (unless I looked up at the wrong place) 
and thus we cannot boot up Kafka as a process, without the binaries 
available somewhere.

-Jaikiran
On Monday 21 September 2015 10:41 AM, Ewen Cheslack-Postava wrote:
> Just FYI, 0.8.2.2 is effectively released -- the jars are in Central and if
> you modify the 0.8.2.1 download URLs for 0.8.2.2 they should be there. I
> think the reason there hasn't been an official announcement is because the
> website transition may be holding things up.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Jaikiran Pai <ja...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Apologies in advance for continuously pestering about the releases. I know
>> there was a mail sent out for voting the 0.8.2.2 release a couple of weeks
>> back, but from what I see, the release is still pending. Any idea if this
>> will be released the coming week?
>>
>> Overall, I'm wondering whether a more quicker release cycle for Kafka
>> would be a good idea. I know this is a open source community driven project
>> and as such doesn't come with timeline guarantees. But since Kafka hasn't
>> yet reached 1.0.0 and from our experience so far, shows some instability
>> issues, would it perhaps be a good idea to release more often whenever good
>> amount of bugs have been fixed? It's already been 6 months since the last
>> release and I already have seen a lot of bugs that have been fixed during
>> that period, but there hasn't been an official release which we can use in
>> our development systems and give it a try. We really like to continue using
>> Kafka since it does add value to our system, but some of the issues we are
>> running into is making us focus more on Kafka and the infrastructure than
>> actually focus on the application integration of it. So having a release
>> more often, which we can use with the bugs fixed, is really going to help.
>>
>> Thanks to the Kafka dev team for the work they put in. I don't intend to
>> sound critical about the project (we really like it). I'm just hoping that
>> the releases happen more often.
>>
>> -Jaikiran
>>
>
>

Re: Kafka releases - can they be more often please?

[Ewen Cheslack-Postava <ew...@confluent.io>]

Just FYI, 0.8.2.2 is effectively released -- the jars are in Central and if
you modify the 0.8.2.1 download URLs for 0.8.2.2 they should be there. I
think the reason there hasn't been an official announcement is because the
website transition may be holding things up.


On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Jaikiran Pai <ja...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Apologies in advance for continuously pestering about the releases. I know
> there was a mail sent out for voting the 0.8.2.2 release a couple of weeks
> back, but from what I see, the release is still pending. Any idea if this
> will be released the coming week?
>
> Overall, I'm wondering whether a more quicker release cycle for Kafka
> would be a good idea. I know this is a open source community driven project
> and as such doesn't come with timeline guarantees. But since Kafka hasn't
> yet reached 1.0.0 and from our experience so far, shows some instability
> issues, would it perhaps be a good idea to release more often whenever good
> amount of bugs have been fixed? It's already been 6 months since the last
> release and I already have seen a lot of bugs that have been fixed during
> that period, but there hasn't been an official release which we can use in
> our development systems and give it a try. We really like to continue using
> Kafka since it does add value to our system, but some of the issues we are
> running into is making us focus more on Kafka and the infrastructure than
> actually focus on the application integration of it. So having a release
> more often, which we can use with the bugs fixed, is really going to help.
>
> Thanks to the Kafka dev team for the work they put in. I don't intend to
> sound critical about the project (we really like it). I'm just hoping that
> the releases happen more often.
>
> -Jaikiran
>



-- 
Thanks,
Ewen