Makes sense :) On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Neha Narkhede <n...@confluent.io> wrote: > Yeah, I'm supportive of this. > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:26 AM Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > >> Hi Gwen, >> >> We have a few recent stories of people using Connect and Streams in >> production. That means the new Java Consumer too. :) >> >> Ismael >> >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote: >> >> > Originally, we suggested keeping the beta label until we know someone >> > successfully uses the new consumer in production. >> > >> > We can consider the recent KIPs enough, but IMO it will be better if >> > someone with production deployment hanging out on our mailing list >> > will confirm good experience with the new consumer. >> > >> > Gwen >> > >> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: >> > > Hi all, >> > > >> > > We currently say the following in our documentation: >> > > >> > > "As of the 0.9.0 release we have added a new Java consumer to replace >> our >> > > existing high-level ZooKeeper-based consumer and low-level consumer >> APIs. >> > > This client is considered beta quality."[1] >> > > >> > > Since then, Jason and the community have done a lot of work to improve >> it >> > > (including KIP-41 and KIP-62), we declared it API stable in 0.10.0.0 >> and >> > > it's the only option for those that need security support. Yes, it >> still >> > > has bugs, but so does the old consumer and all development is currently >> > > focused on the new consumer. >> > > >> > > As such, I propose we remove the beta label for the next release and >> > switch >> > > our tools to use the new consumer by default unless the zookeeper >> > > command-line option is present (for compatibility). This is similar to >> > what >> > > we did it for the new producer in 0.9.0.0, but backwards compatible. >> > > >> > > Thoughts? >> > > >> > > Ismael >> > > >> > > [1] http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#consumerapi >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Gwen Shapira >> > Product Manager | Confluent >> > 650.450.2760 | @gwenshap >> > Follow us: Twitter | blog >> > >> > -- > Thanks, > Neha
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