Joe, I downloaded the source distro and ran into this error. Followed the steps listed on the release process wiki to validate the release.
vagrant@precise64:~/kafka-0.8.2-beta-src$ gradle FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * Where: Script '/home/vagrant/kafka-0.8.2-beta-src/scala.gradle' line: 2 * What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating script. Cause: Could not find property 'ext' on settings 'kafka-0.8.2-beta-src'. * Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. BUILD FAILED Total time: 1.565 secs vagrant@precise64:~/kafka-0.8.2-beta-src$ cat scala.gradle if (!hasProperty('scalaVersion')) { ext.scalaVersion = '2.10.1' } ext.defaultScalaVersion = '2.10.1' if (scalaVersion.startsWith('2.10')) { ext.baseScalaVersion = '2.10' } else if (scalaVersion.startsWith('2.11')) { ext.baseScalaVersion = '2.11' } else { ext.baseScalaVersion = scalaVersion } On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Joe Stein <joe.st...@stealth.ly> wrote: > This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.8.2-beta > > Release Notes for the 0.8.2-beta release > > https://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.2-beta-candidate1/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > *** Please download, test and vote by Friday, October 24th, 2pm PT > > Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/kafka/KEYS in addition to the md5, sha1 > and sha2 (SHA256) checksum. > > * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): > https://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.2-beta-candidate1/ > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon prior to release: > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ > > * scala-doc > https://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.2-beta-candidate1/scala-doc/ > > * java-doc > https://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.2-beta-candidate1/java-doc/ > > * The tag to be voted upon (off the 0.8.2 branch) is the 0.8.2-beta tag > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=2b2c3da2c52bc62a89d60f85125d3723c8410fa0 > > /******************************************* > Joe Stein > Founder, Principal Consultant > Big Data Open Source Security LLC > http://www.stealth.ly > Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> > ********************************************/ >