That being said, does it make sense to release a 0.7.3? Since there are some fixes post 0.7.2, which are not 0.8 related. Currently, I am using trunk, cuz a few things are fixed with shutting down gracefully after no activity, etc....
Jason On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Otis, > > I wouldn't call 0.8 HEAD production ready right now, there are still > some performance issues that we are working on. At LinkedIn, we are at > least 2 months away from deploying 0.8 in production. > > > Questions: > > * Would it be wiser/simpler for us to switch our dependency from 0.7.2 > to 0.8, code to 0.8 APIs, and deploy a version of 0.8 from HEAD or nightly > build? > > Not yet. 0.7.2 is very stable and is deployed in production for > several months without problems. > > > * How stable or buggy is Kafka 0.8 HEAD? > > It is feature complete, and like I said, there are performance bugs > like memory leaks, that we are working on. > > > * If we switch to using 0.8 now, what are the chances of > incompatibilities in terms of how data in Kafka is stored? (I would like to > avoid having to do data conversions or anything that can interrupt our > service) > > We made protocol changes up until last Friday, so I would wait for > another few weeks before deploying 0.8 in production, if you'd like to > avoid incompatible releases. However, upgrading from 0.7.2 to 0.8 is > also backwards incompatible and will require careful deployment > planning to correctly release 0.8 without service interruptions. > > HTH, > Neha > > > > > On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Otis Gospodnetic > <otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > How production-ready and how GA-compatible is 0.8 HEAD now? > > > > Context: > > We're starting to use Kafka in a few projects at Sematext (one of them > is in my sig below) and are using Kafka 0.7.2. > > One of them will go live in about 10 days. > > > > Questions: > > * Would it be wiser/simpler for us to switch our dependency from 0.7.2 > to 0.8, code to 0.8 APIs, and deploy a version of 0.8 from HEAD or nightly > build? > > * How stable or buggy is Kafka 0.8 HEAD? > > * If we switch to using 0.8 now, what are the chances of > incompatibilities in terms of how data in Kafka is stored? (I would like to > avoid having to do data conversions or anything that can interrupt our > service) > > > > Is anyone running a recent Kafka 0.8 checkout in high-volume production? > > > > Thanks, > > Otis > > ---- > > Performance Monitoring for Solr / ElasticSearch / HBase - > http://sematext.com/spm >
