Hi, As of this week, we closed:
KAFKA-335: Embedded controller KAFKA-341: Create a new single host system test to validate all replicas on 0.8 branch We have people signed up on the following jiras: KAFKA-329: Create topic support (revisit based on v3 design) KAFKA-339: Use multi-fetch for follower replication KAFKA-350: Improve the highwatermark maintenance to handle failures KAFKA-353: Tie Producer-side ack with high watermark and progress of replicas The following jiras can be worked on in parallel and we welcome contribution from the community. KAFKA-288: rework java producer API KAFKA-289: reuse TopicData when sending produce request KAFKA-354: refactor setter/getter in scala style KAFKA-355: Move the highwatermark maintenance logic out of Log. KAFKA-356: create a generic thread class Thanks, Neha