Re: Preliminary blog post about the Apache 2.6.0 release

Thanks Randall. That clarifies things. Makes sense! On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 11:38 AM Randall Hauch wrote: > Hi, Maulin. > > We have traditionally not mentioned *every* KIP in the project's blog posts > -- unless a release just happens to involve a small number of KIPs. This > means that we do hav

Re: Preliminary blog post about the Apache 2.6.0 release

The last blog post for 2.5.0 mentioned KIP-500, and I know we've made a lot of progress on that and will have even more in upcoming releases. I'd like to add the following paragraph to the opening section, just after the paragraph mentioning JDK 14 and Scala 2.13: "Finally, these accomplishments a

Re: Preliminary blog post about the Apache 2.6.0 release

Hi, Maulin. We have traditionally not mentioned *every* KIP in the project's blog posts -- unless a release just happens to involve a small number of KIPs. This means that we do have to choose a subset of the KIPs -- AK 2.6.0 had 30 KIPs that were implemented, and a blog summarizing each would be

Re: Preliminary blog post about the Apache 2.6.0 release

Hi Randall One question: Do we mention all KIPs/NewFeatures in the blog that are listed in the release notes document - https://home.apache.org/~rhauch/kafka-2.6.0-rc2/RELEASE_NOTES.html ? I see that [KAFKA-8890 ] - KIP-519: Make SSL context/engin

Re: Preliminary blog post about the Apache 2.6.0 release

Thanks, Jason. We haven't done that for a few releases, but I think it's a great idea. I've updated the blog post draft and the Google doc to mention the 127 contributors by name that will also be mentioned in the email release announcement. I also linked to the project's downloads page in the ope

Re: Preliminary blog post about the Apache 2.6.0 release

Thanks, Jason. We haven't done that for a few releases, but I think it's a great idea. I've updated the blog post draft and the Google doc to mention the 127 contributors by name that will also be mentioned in the email release announcement. I also linked to the project's downloads page in the ope

Re: Preliminary blog post about the Apache 2.6.0 release

Hey Randall, Thanks for putting this together. I think it would be great if the blog included the names of the release contributors. It's an easy way to give some recognition. I know we have done that in the past. Thanks, Jason On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 8:25 AM Randall Hauch wrote: > I've prepare

Preliminary blog post about the Apache 2.6.0 release

I've prepared a preliminary blog post about the upcoming Apache Kafka 2.6.0 release. Please take a look and let me know via this thread if you want to add/modify details. Thanks to all who contributed to this blog post. Unfortunately, the preview is not currently publicly visible at https://blogs.