Thanks Randall. That clarifies things. Makes sense! On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 11:38 AM Randall Hauch <rha...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi, Maulin. > > We have traditionally not mentioned *every* KIP in the project's blog posts > -- unless a release just happens to involve a small number of KIPs. This > means that we do have to choose a subset of the KIPs -- AK 2.6.0 had 30 > KIPs that were implemented, and a blog summarizing each would be too long > and much less widely received. I tried to choose KIPs that clearly impacted > the broadest set of users, and finding a subset wasn't that easy. > > I chose not to include KIP-519 in the blog simply because it requires > installing and integration into the broker components that are not included > in the official distribution. I hope that helps explain my thought process. > > Best regards, > > Randall > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 12:52 PM Maulin Vasavada <maulin.vasav...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > Hi Randall > > > > One question: Do we mention all KIPs/NewFeatures in the blog that are > > listed in the release notes document - > > https://home.apache.org/~rhauch/kafka-2.6.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html ? > > > > I see that [KAFKA-8890 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8890 > >] > > - KIP-519: Make SSL context/engine configuration extensible is missing > from > > the google doc that you shared. > > > > Thanks > > Maulin > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 9:49 AM Randall Hauch <rha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Thanks, Jason. We haven't done that for a few releases, but I think > it's > > a > > > great idea. I've updated the blog post draft and the Google doc to > > mention > > > the 127 contributors by name that will also be mentioned in the email > > > release announcement. > > > > > > I also linked to the project's downloads page in the opening sentence, > > and > > > tweaked the wording slightly in the first paragraph. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Randall > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 11:21 AM Jason Gustafson <ja...@confluent.io> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hey Randall, > > > > > > > > Thanks for putting this together. I think it would be great if the > blog > > > > included the names of the release contributors. It's an easy way to > > give > > > > some recognition. I know we have done that in the past. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 8:25 AM Randall Hauch <rha...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've prepared a preliminary blog post about the upcoming Apache > Kafka > > > > 2.6.0 > > > > > release. > > > > > Please take a look and let me know via this thread if you want to > > > > > add/modify details. > > > > > Thanks to all who contributed to this blog post. > > > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, the preview is not currently publicly visible at > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://blogs.apache.org/preview/kafka/?previewEntry=what-s-new-in-apache3 > > > > > (I've > > > > > logged https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-20646), so in > the > > > > > interest of time I created a Google doc with read privilege for > > > everyone > > > > by > > > > > pasting the preview content directly into: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MQQoJk4ewedYgFfgSA2axx3VhRwgj_0rO1tf3yezV0c/edit?usp=sharing > > > > > > > > > > I will continue to update this doc with any changes to the draft > blog > > > > post. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Randall > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >