Hi, We have accumulated an impressive list of pretty major features in 0.8.2 - Delete topic Automated leader rebalancing Controlled shutdown Offset management Parallel recovery min.isr and clean leader election
In the past, what has worked for major feature releases is a beta release prior to a final release. I'm proposing we do the same for 0.8.2. The only blockers for 0.8.2-beta, that I know of are - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1493 (Is a major change and requires some thinking about the new dependency. Since it is not fully ready and there are things to think about, I suggest we take it out, think it end to end and then include it in 0.8.3.) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1634 (This has an owner: Guozhang Wang) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1671 (Has a patch and is waiting on a review by Joe Stein) It seems that 1634 and 1671 can get wrapped up in a week. Do people think we should cut 0.8.2-beta by next week? Thanks, Neha
