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Greg Harris commented on KAFKA-14762:
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Thanks [~ijuma] for clarifying where the actual policy diverges from the
Release Plan policy.
I think this change can be made after KIP-896 is approved.
> Remove 0_8_2_LATEST from rolling upgrade system test
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> Key: KAFKA-14762
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-14762
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: system tests
> Reporter: Greg Harris
> Priority: Minor
>
> Currently, the core/upgrade_test.py exercises rolling from various past Kafka
> versions to the development version. The earliest version that it currently
> tests is 0_8_2_LATEST, 0.8.2.2, released October 2, 2015.
> The test has a special case for that that version, which does not contain a
> copy of the `tools` jar. The test is written to make use of the tools jar for
> assertions, but because the jar does not exist in 0.8.2.2, a jar from the
> latest development version is used instead. For example, this has the effect
> that when executing the 0.8.2.2 upgrade case, the 3.5.0-SNAPSHOT tools jar is
> on the classpath with the 0.8.2.2 clients jar.
> Because of this, development on the VerifiableProducer has needed to be
> backwards compatible with the 0.8.2.2 clients jar, and this has lead to code
> duplication and other limitations on the maintenance that can be done to the
> class. This appears to be mostly an artifact of how the testing is carried
> out, as upgrades are typically performed without mixing jars from different
> versions of Kafka.
> In order to lift those limitations, we should eliminate this one version from
> compatibility testing. Accompanying this change, we should update the latest
> documentation to say "Upgrading to <version> from any version 0.9.x through
> <version>" instead of 0.8.x, since that version will no longer be regularly
> tested.
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