This is great. Thanks, Ismael. On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 7:35 AM, Grant Henke <ghe...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> Looks good to me. Thanks for handling the KIP. > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Damian Guy <damian....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Ismael. Makes sense to me. > > > > On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 at 10:39 Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have posted a KIP for dropping support for Java 7 in Kafka 0.11: > > > > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP- > > 118%3A+Drop+Support+for+Java+7+in+Kafka+0.11 > > > > > > Most people were supportive when we last discussed the topic[1], but > > there > > > were a few concerns. I believe the following should mitigate the > > concerns: > > > > > > 1. The new proposal suggests dropping support in the next major version > > > instead of the next minor version. > > > 2. KIP-97 which is part of 0.10.2 means that 0.11 clients will support > > 0.10 > > > brokers (0.11 brokers will also support 0.10 clients as usual), so > there > > is > > > even more flexibility on incremental upgrades. > > > 3. Java 9 will be released shortly after the next Kafka release, so > we'll > > > be supporting the 2 most recent Java releases, which is a reasonable > > > policy. > > > 4. 8 months have passed since the last proposal and the release after > > > 0.10.2 won't be out for another 4 months, which should hopefully be > > enough > > > time for Java 8 to be even more established. We haven't decided when > the > > > next major release will happen, but we know that it won't happen before > > > June 2017. > > > > > > Please take a look at the proposal and share your feedback. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Ismael > > > > > > [1] http://search-hadoop.com/m/Kafka/uyzND1oIhV61GS5Sf2 > > > > > > > > > -- > Grant Henke > Software Engineer | Cloudera > gr...@cloudera.com | twitter.com/gchenke | linkedin.com/in/granthenke >
