Re: pushing delete topic feature out of 0.8

2013-04-04 Thread David Arthur
Since you need to learn about the leader for a topic in order to do anything, you kind of already have "auto-create" since getting metadata for a topic will create it if it doesn't exist. As for auto-delete, log files will be deleted over time (per the usual policy). There will be residual stu

Re: pushing delete topic feature out of 0.8

2013-04-04 Thread Jason Rosenberg
Ok, This is a feature I've been hoping for, so I added an upvote to Kafka-330. But I will defer to you in terms of not wanting to delay 0.8 unnecessarily. Will we still have a backhanded way to remove a topic if need be? Ultimately, I'd like to see the feature where a topic automatically is cr

pushing delete topic feature out of 0.8

2013-04-04 Thread Jun Rao
Hi, We started the work on deleting topics in 0.8 (kafka-330). We realized that it touches quite a few critical components such as controller, replica manager, and log, and it will take some time to stabilize this. In order not to delay the 0.8 release too much, I propose that we push this feature