0.11.0.0 KIP Freeze Update

[Ismael Juma <is...@juma.me.uk>]

Hi all,

As you hopefully know, the KIP freeze for 0.11.0.0 was yesterday. Since
this is the first release with a KIP freeze and a number of people from the
community were in the Kafka Summit NY for a few days this week, I have
included added KIPs that have enough votes to pass (even if the 72 hour
period hasn't passed yet) to the release plan:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+0.11.0.0

For the next release, I suggest we aim to have all the KIP votes closed by
the KIP freeze.

As a reminder, here are the upcoming important dates (also documented in
the release plan):

   - Feature Freeze: May 17, 2017 (major features merged & working on
   stabilization, minor features have PR, release branch cut; anything not in
   this state will be automatically moved to the next release in JIRA)
   - Code Freeze: May 31, 2017 (first RC created now)
   - Release: June 14, 2017

The feature freeze is less than 1 week away and it's possible (perhaps even
likely) that some of the KIPs in the release plan may not make it.
Thankfully, the subsequent release will happen 4 months later, so the wait
won't be long. :)

KIPs: we have 33 adopted with 11 already committed and 19 with patches in
flight. The feature freeze is 6 days away so we have a lot of reviewing to
do, but significant changes have been merged already.

Open JIRAs: As usual, we have a lot!

*https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20KAFKA%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened%2C%20%22Patch%20Available%22)%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%200.11.0.0%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20KAFKA%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened%2C%20%22Patch%20Available%22)%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%200.11.0.0%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC>*

152 at the moment. As we get nearer to the feature freeze, I will start
moving JIRAs out of this release.

* Closed JIRAs: So far ~212 closed tickets for 0.11.0.0:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%
3D%20KAFKA%20AND%20status%20in%20(Resolved%2C%20Closed)%
20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%200.11.0.0%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC

* Release features:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Release+Plan+0.11.0.0 has
a "Release Features" section that will be included with the release
notes/email for the release. I added some items to get it going. Please add
to
this list anything you think is worth noting.

If you missed any of the updates on the new time-based releases we'll be
following, see
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Time+Based+Release+Plan
for an explanation.

I'll plan to give another update next week, around the feature freeze. As
usual, feedback and/or questions are welcome.

Thanks,
Ismael