Actually the intern ended up working on offset storage (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Offset+Management) in case any one is still interested in quotas.
-Jay On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > As for offset management, we have a summer intern starting this week and > our plan is to have the intern work on this. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Sam Meder <sam.me...@jivesoftware.com>wrote: > >> On Jun 24, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hey Sam, >> > >> > That's great. I would be happy to act as a point of contact if any >> > questions come up or you need a reviewer for patches. >> > >> >> Great, I have a few patches outstanding, so if you could take a look: >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-943 >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-946 >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-956 >> >> > We haven't had an official discussion of roadmap but trunk already has >> > support for keyed messages and log compaction and a cleanup of the log >> > code. I think the goal would be to make this release as small and >> > quick as possible with any bigger disruptive features going into 0.9. >> >> So the plan is to base 0.8.1 on trunk? >> >> > Here are some ideas of things that I think would fit well: >> > 1. Any good housekeeping issues. 0.8 was a pretty major rewrite and >> > getting that done and stable required ignoring a lot of basic issues >> > that impact the out-of-the-box experience---good errors, >> > documentation, logging, etc. We haven't filed a lot of JIRAs for this, >> > but anything you see that falls under this umbrella would be a good >> > target. Doing a few of these is often a good way to learn the code >> > base. >> >> Mostly what I have been trying to do - some classes could probably also >> use some splitting up. I'll continue down this path. >> >> > 2. Quotas. Jonathan had proposed working on this, but I don't think he >> > ever got the time. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-656 >> > 3. Phase 2 of this wiki: >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Offset+Management >> > >> >> For us 3 seems definitely more valuable than 2. We'd also really like to >> have support for deleting topics (i.e. continue work on >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-330) and would potentially >> want to change the build so it creates separate server and client artifacts. >> >> /Sam >> >> >> > Folks--any other ideas? >> > >> > -Jay >> > >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Sam Meder <sam.me...@jivesoftware.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hey, >> >> >> >> I now have roughly a day a week I can dedicate to working on Kafka, so >> I am looking for issues in the 0.8.1 batch that you think might be good >> starting points. Input would be much appreciated. >> >> >> >> Speaking of issues, I think it would be good to either fix >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-946 for 0.8 or just drop the >> code from the release. >> >> >> >> /Sam >> >>
