Hi all, We've had a few proposals recently for incompatible changes. One of them is my KIP-604: Remove ZooKeeper Flags from the Administrative Tools. The other is Boyang's KIP-590: Redirect ZK Mutation Protocols to the Controller. I think it's time to start thinking about Kafka 3.0. Specifically, I think we should move to 3.0 after the 2.6 release.
>From the perspective of KIP-500, in Kafka 3.x we'd like to make running in a >ZooKeeper-less mode possible (but not yet the default.) This is the >motivation behind KIP-590 and KIP-604, as well as some of the other KIPs we've >done recently. Since it will take some time to stabilize the new >ZooKeeper-free Kafka code, we will hide it behind an option initially. (We'll >have a KIP describing this all in detail soon.) What does everyone think about having Kafka 3.0 come up next after 2.6? Are there any other things we should change in the 2.6 -> 3.0 transition? best, Colin
