RE: [DISCUSS] KIP-280: Enhanced log compaction

2018-09-21 Thread Bertus Greeff
it would require users trying to customizing their > > compaction logic (think: based on some value payload field) to > > transform their fields to long as well. So I feel we can still go > > with the current proposed approach, and only consider > this > > gener

Re: [DISCUSS] KIP-280: Enhanced log compaction

2018-08-16 Thread Bertus Greeff
I'm interested to know the status of this KIP. I see that the status is "Voting". How long does this normally take? We want to use Kafka and this KIP provides exactly the log compaction logic that we want for many of our projects. One piece of feedback that I have is that

RE: [VOTE] KIP-280: Enhanced log compaction

2018-08-16 Thread Bertus Greeff
I want to add my support for the Header strategy. That's the one we care about as well and would very much want to have KIP-280 move forward. Being able to provide an external sequence is very important. Time is not precise enough in a distributed system but there are know good ways to have