Hi Jason, We are closely monitoring the health of one of our production clusters that has the 0.8 code deployed. This cluster is feeding off of LinkedIn's production traffic. Once this cluster is fairly stable, we'd like to run all of our tools and ensure those are working. Another thing we are trying is to introduce failures on this cluster when it is under load and ensure that there is no data loss.
So far, we've been working on stabilizing this cluster and fixing bugs. Next week, we will be working on tools and setting up audit so we can do some data loss analysis, if any. This will probably take another month. After that, I think we should be ready to release a public BETA and have our users try it. If we release it sooner than that, I'm not sure it will be helpful since tools and simple failure cases might not work as expected. As far as formal release goes, I believe end of March or April will be a good timeframe. We will try our best to update documentation for the BETA release, 3-4 weeks from now. Thanks, Neha On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Jason Rosenberg <j...@squareup.com> wrote: > Just wanted to inquire as to the status 0.8 being released to beta. > > I have several use cases now that would like to take advantage of the new > features in 0.8, and I'm not sure if it makes sense to keep waiting for an > actual release, before attempting to use the latest HEAD version in > staging/production environments. > > How stable is the 0.8 branch at this point? What is the schedule for a > formal release? When will there at least be a link to 0.8 documentation, > where to download it, on the main apache kafka site? > > Thanks, > > Jason >
