Just FYI, 0.8.2.2 is effectively released -- the jars are in Central and if you modify the 0.8.2.1 download URLs for 0.8.2.2 they should be there. I think the reason there hasn't been an official announcement is because the website transition may be holding things up.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Jaikiran Pai <jai.forums2...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Thanks, Ewen
