The remaining 0.8 blockers are tracked in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+replication+development
Thanks, Jun On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:14 PM, graham sanderson <gra...@vast.com> wrote: > Thanks, so if I understand what you are saying is that 0.8 is alpha-ish; > i.e. everything pretty much implemented (is there anything major missing - > hard to tell looking at JIRA without much context) - we use at our own risk > (which we're fine with), but that given we really want 0.8 features we can > and should start testing with it today, with an expectation of a release in > the next N months where N is hopefully no more than 2 > > On Feb 21, 2013, at 11:06 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > 0.8 is a significant rewrite since the 0.7 codebase. Hence, there is no > > easy way to "turn off" replication and expect 0.7.2 like functionality. > > Having said that, it is somewhat stable so you can use it for > prototyping. > > > > Thanks, > > Neha > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:42 PM, graham sanderson <gra...@vast.com> > wrote: > > > >> So I am excited that 0.8 is getting close. > >> > >> I understand that 0.8 is pre-beta, but to what extent would you say the > >> bugs are mostly with the new redundancy code vs regressions in existing > >> functionality; i.e. if wanting to prototype and deploy something over > the > >> next month or so with the view to deploying it within the next two > months, > >> is it safe-ish to go with 0.8 with replicated brokers turned off (for > now) > >> vs going with 0.7.2? > >> > >> Also does anyone know the status of any node.js clients for 0.8 > >> > >> On Feb 21, 2013, at 3:32 PM, David Arthur <mum...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I've been having trouble building trunk since the changes to sbt in > 0.8. > >> Is there some documentation on building and running trunk? > >>> > >>> > >>> On 2/21/13 3:53 PM, Neha Narkhede wrote: > >>>> HEAD is good as of today and has been stable for past few days. There > >> are > >>>> some bugs we are working on but you can certainly run the cluster and > do > >>>> some basic send/receive operations. Also, let us know if you have > >> feedback > >>>> on the APIs, protocols, tools etc since that takes some time to > refactor > >>>> and change. > >>>> > >>>> Good luck! :-) > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Neha > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Jason Rosenberg <j...@squareup.com> > >> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> 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 > >>>>>>> > >>> > >> > >> > >
