+1
> On Feb 18, 2015, at 7:56 PM, Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io> wrote:
>
> This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 0.8.2.1. This
> only fixes one critical issue (KAFKA-1952) in 0.8.2.0.
>
> Release Notes for the 0.8.2.1 release
> https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.1-candidate1/RELEASE_NOTES.html
>
> *** Please download, test and vote by Saturday, Feb 21, 7pm PT
>
> Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release:
> http://kafka.apache.org/KEYS in addition to the md5, sha1
> and sha2 (SHA256) checksum.
>
> * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary):
> https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.1-candidate1/
>
> * Maven artifacts to be voted upon prior to release:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/
>
> * scala-doc
> https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.1-candidate1/scaladoc/
>
> * java-doc
> https://people.apache.org/~junrao/kafka-0.8.2.1-candidate1/javadoc/
>
> * The tag to be voted upon (off the 0.8.2 branch) is the 0.8.2.1 tag
> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=kafka.git;a=tag;h=c1b4c58531343dce80232e0122d085fc687633f6
>
> /*******************************************
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jun
