A point release focusing on stability would definitely be nice. And maybe a table in a wiki marking the stability of various features (core, replication, synchronous messageing, compaction, rebalancing, topic create, etc), so that people don't end up in the danger zone on prod deployments.
- Niek On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for giving the 0.8.1 release a spin! A few people have reported bugs > with delete topic <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1310> and > also the automatic leader > rebalancing<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1305>feature > that we released as part of 0.8.1. These features were released as > beta and were not widely tested at LinkedIn, unlike most of the stuff that > we have released in the past. As a result, more bugs are being reported on > 0.8.1 that are of a rather serious nature. It is unclear how many of these > bugs might show up on 0.8.1 as more people adopt it. To mitigate the impact > and also to continue releasing stable code to our users, I'm proposing we > do a point release (0.8.1.1?) to turn off these features for the time > being. Stabilize and test these and then release these as part of 0.8.2. > > Do people have any thoughts on this? > > Thanks, > Neha
