Hello Faidon, Thank you for coming to talk to us! And your willingness to review/mentor/upload. Glad to know Wikimedia is listening and willing to contribute. Another reason I did separate packaging work was to get the latest version of Kafka running. We can find some time in the next few weeks to discuss on IRC. Whenever is good for you.
Cheers! Brandon On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Faidon Liambotis <parav...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 07:44:05AM -0500, Brandon Bradley wrote: > > I have multiple reasons for not contacting Wikimedia or using their work. > > The possibility of them having additions for their own purposes is very > > high. I believe starting fresh was easier than analyzing and debugging > > their repo. > > Don't guess, ask :) > > That particular package has been prepared and is maintained by my team > at the Wikimedia Foundation, which incidentally has 3 DDs (Filippo > Giunchedi, Moritz Mühlenhoff and myself) in it, plus at least a couple > of other people with Debian packaging expertise. > > At Wikimedia, we're using Kafka extensively. We're obviously very keen > on pushing things upstream too, which why e.g. I already pushed our > librdkafka package in Debian (already part of jessie). Vincent Bernat > also worked on kafkacat (from the same upstream) which we also use, so > we collaborated and now jointly comaintain each other's packages. We're > definitely not trying to work in a silo :) > > We haven't attempted to push the "main" Kafka package to Debian, since > our time was limited and the packaging was a bit hacky/get-the-job-done > (e.g. replacing the complex build system that downloads jars off the > Internet by a Makefile), plus, JVM packages are usually harder to > maintain properly :) > > I've been quietly watching this ITP, though, and we would definitely be > interested to join efforts and switch to better, properly maintained > packages, if there is enough momentum from people that want to see this > in Debian. > > Time is (always) limited but I'd be more than happy to > review/mentor/upload. I'll also convey this whole conversation > internally to my team, maybe we can pull some resources for this, if > you're interested in collaborating. > > Best, > Faidon >
