+1 Thanks Joe.
The following are very minor issues that I think don't matter at all, but we can keep in mind for future releases: - won't fix issues still show up in the release notes (the go client jiras for e.g.,) - In http://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.0-candidate3/kafka_2.8.0-0.8.0.tar.gz we package the perf scripts (for producer/consumer) but don't include the perf jar. So maybe those scripts should be removed (and same for run-rat.sh). Can you file a jira for this? Joel On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 03:56:04PM -0500, Joe Stein wrote: > This is the third candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.8.0. This > release candidate artifacts changed in regards to > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1126 along with updating the > release notes to only have resolved - fixed issues and the KEY file to > verify signature again for this vote to be the latest link. > > Release Notes for the 0.8.0 release > http://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.0-candidate3/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > *** Please download, test and vote by Wednesday November, 13th, 12pm PDT > > Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/kafka/KEYS in addition to the md5 and sha1 > checksum > > * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): > http://people.apache.org/~joestein/kafka-0.8.0-candidate3/ > > * Maven artifacts to be voted upon prior to release: > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/ > > (i.e. in sbt land this can be added to the build.sbt to use Kafka > resolvers += "Apache Staging" at " > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/" > libraryDependencies += "org.apache.kafka" % "kafka_2.10" % "0.8.0" > ) > > * The tag to be voted upon (off the 0.8 branch) is the 0.8.0 tag > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=bc24fb7c0f48c36bf9073d384eb87213644648d4 > > /******************************************* > Joe Stein > Founder, Principal Consultant > Big Data Open Source Security LLC > http://www.stealth.ly > Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> > ********************************************/