Greetings Kafka Developer Community, As you all know, we have few big features that are almost complete (Timestamps! Interceptors! Streams!). It is time to start planning our next release.
I suggest the following: * Cut branches on March 21st * Publish the first release candidate the next day * Start testing, finding important issues, fixing them, rolling out new releases * And eventually get a release candidate that we all agree is awesome enough to release. Hopefully this won't take too many iterations :) Note that this is a 2 weeks heads-up on branch cutting. After we cut branches, we will try to minimize cherrypicks to just critical bugs (because last major release was a bit insane). Therefore, if you have a feature that you really want to see in 0.10.0 - you'll need to have it committed by March 21st. As a curtesy to the release manager, if you have features that you are not planning on getting in for 0.10.0, please change the "fix version" field in JIRA accordingly. I will send a heads-up few days before cutting branches, to give everyone a chance to get stragglers in. The vote will be open for 72 hours. All in favor, please reply with +1. Gwen Shapira
