*bump* Any opinions on this?
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Achanta Vamsi Subhash < achanta.va...@flipkart.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > We find that there are many releases of Kafka and not all the bugs are > back ported to the older releases. Can we have a LTS (Long Term Support) > release which can be supported for 2 years with all the bugs back-ported? > > This will be very helpful as during the last 2-3 releases, we often have > the cases where the api of producers/consumers changes and the bugs are > only fixed in the newer components. Also, many people who are on the older > versions treat the latest release of that series is the stable one and end > up with bugs in production. > > I can volunteer for the release management of the LTS release but as a > community, can we follow the rigour of back-porting the bug-fixes to the > LTS branch? > > -- > Regards > Vamsi Subhash > -- Regards Vamsi Subhash
