Kafka releases - can they be more often please?

[Jaikiran Pai]

Apologies in advance for continuously pestering about the releases. I 
know there was a mail sent out for voting the 0.8.2.2 release a couple 
of weeks back, but from what I see, the release is still pending. Any 
idea if this will be released the coming week?

Overall, I'm wondering whether a more quicker release cycle for Kafka 
would be a good idea. I know this is a open source community driven 
project and as such doesn't come with timeline guarantees. But since 
Kafka hasn't yet reached 1.0.0 and from our experience so far, shows 
some instability issues, would it perhaps be a good idea to release more 
often whenever good amount of bugs have been fixed? It's already been 6 
months since the last release and I already have seen a lot of bugs that 
have been fixed during that period, but there hasn't been an official 
release which we can use in our development systems and give it a try. 
We really like to continue using Kafka since it does add value to our 
system, but some of the issues we are running into is making us focus 
more on Kafka and the infrastructure than actually focus on the 
application integration of it. So having a release more often, which we 
can use with the bugs fixed, is really going to help.

Thanks to the Kafka dev team for the work they put in. I don't intend to 
sound critical about the project (we really like it). I'm just hoping 
that the releases happen more often.

-Jaikiran