Hi Grant, That's an interesting point. It would be good to hear what others' think of making that the official policy instead of starting a discussion/vote each time. If there is consensus, I am happy to revise the KIPs. Otherwise, we keep them as they are and discuss/vote on this instance only.
Ismael On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Grant Henke <ghe...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Thanks for proposing this Ismael. This makes sense to me. > > In this KIP and the java KIP you state: > > A reasonable policy is to support the 2 most recently released versions so > > that we can strike a good balance between supporting older versions, > > maintainability and taking advantage of language and library > improvements. > > > What do you think about adjusting the KIP to instead vote on that as a > standard policy for Java and Scala going forward? Something along the lines > of: > > "Kafka's policy is to support the 2 most recently released versions of Java > and Scala at a given time. When a new version becomes available, the > supported versions will be updated in the next major release of Kafka." > > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 8:30 AM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have posted a KIP for dropping support for Scala 2.10 in Kafka 0.11: > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP- > > 119%3A+Drop+Support+for+Scala+2.10+in+Kafka+0.11 > > > > Please take a look. Your feedback is appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Ismael > > > > > > -- > Grant Henke > Software Engineer | Cloudera > gr...@cloudera.com | twitter.com/gchenke | linkedin.com/in/granthenke >
