Hi,
Here at RichRelevance we are already using Kafka 0.7 in production. We'd very
much like to get involved as early adopters of 0.8.
Of course we could just pull HEAD from trunk and build it, which we've already
done and managed to retrofit our existing logic to work with the 0.8 API, but
it would be nice to get a "blessed" build that has gone through LinkedIn's
internal integration testing, so it will have at least some level of stability.
Is there some kind of build like that we could get hold of? Even just a
tag/specific revision would work.
We fully understand what it means to get involved with beta/pre-release
software, and we're going to give it a thorough workout before even considering
deploying it to production, but we'd like to get hold of a stable release
candidate now -- the ops people are chomping at the bit for the extra
reliability on the Broker side!
We will of course attempt to fix any defects we find and submit the patches
back to the project. We'd like to be involved in helping with the
productionization of Kafka 0.8.
We also have some useful consumers & framework classes we've built around
Kafka, which we are planning to contribute back to the project. We can't do so
immediately because they depend on some of our internal classes which we don't
want to release to the project, since they're somewhat messy.
Could you let us know how we need to proceed?
Thanks....
Da{rr}en Sargent
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Senior Software Engineer, Platform
richrelevance
www.richrelevance.com<http://www.richrelevance.com/>
