Thanks Neha, That's helpful info. Is there a reasonable checkpoint rev to check out now and experiment with, or is HEAD as good as anything else?
Jason On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > >
