Thanks everyone for voting. +1 from me too. The vote passed with 6 binding +1s (Neha, Joe, Gwen, Guozhang, Joel, Ewen) and 4 non-binding +1s (Becket, Ashish, Grant and me).
The discussion will now move to KAFKA-2982. Ismael On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Ewen Cheslack-Postava <e...@confluent.io> wrote: > +1 > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Joel Koshy <jjkosh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > The new Java producer was introduced in 0.8.2.0 (released in February > > > 2015). It has become the default implementation for various tools since > > > 0.9.0.0 (released in October 2015) and it is the only implementation > with > > > support for the security features introduced in 0.9.0.0. > > > > > > Given this, I think we should deprecate the old Scala producers for > > > 0.10.0.0 by adding @deprecated annotations in the code and updating the > > the > > > documentation to encourage usage of the new Java producer. This would > > give > > > our users a stronger signal regarding our plans to focus on the new > Java > > > producer going forward. > > > > > > Note that this proposal is only about deprecating the old Scala > producers > > > as, > > > in my opinion, it is too early to do the same for the old Scala > > consumers. > > > The > > > new Java consumer was only introduced in 0.9.0.0 and it's still marked > as > > > beta. It would be good to have a full release cycle where the new > > consumer > > > is no longer in beta before we deprecate the old consumers. We are > hoping > > > to remove the beta label for the consumer for 0.10.0.0, but that's a > > > separate discussion. > > > > > > With regards to removal of the deprecated producers, the current > thinking > > > is to remove all Scala clients at the same time, so it will take at > least > > > two non bug-fix release cycles (it could take longer depending on > users' > > > feedback). > > > > > > The feedback was mostly positive in the discuss thread although some > > points > > > were raised about deprecating the old producers before deprecating the > > old > > > consumers: > > > > > > > > > > > > http://search-hadoop.com/m/uyzND1KVJJmcbgAf2&subj=+DISCUSS+Deprecating+the+old+Scala+producers+for+the+next+release > > > > > > The JIRA for tracking this is KAFKA-2982. > > > > > > The vote will run for 72 hours. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Ismael > > > > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Ewen >
