@Sam Not always. Not all LTS customers are cloudera/... customers. Do they actually backport the changes? If yes, an opensource LTS will actually help them.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Sam Pegler <sam.peg...@infectiousmedia.com> wrote: > I would assume (maybe incorrectly) that users who were after a LTS style > release would instead be going for one of the commercial versions. > Clouderas for example is > https://cloudera.com/products/apache-hadoop/apache-kafka.html, they'll > then > manage patches and provide support for you? > > Sam Pegler > > Site Reliability Engineer > > T. +44(0) 07 562 867 486 > > [image: Infectious Media] > 3-7 Herbal Hill / London / EC1R 5EJ > www.infectiousmedia.com > [image: Infectious Media] <http://www.infectiousmedia.com/> > [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/infectiousmedia> [image: > Twitter] > <https://twitter.com/infectiousmedia> [image: LinkedIn] > <http://www.linkedin.com/company/infectious-media-ltd> [image: Youtube] > <http://www.youtube.com/user/InfectiousMediaLtd> > > > This email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. > If you > are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, and > do not > disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose, or store, > or copy > the information in any medium. Please also destroy and delete the message > from > your computer. > > > On 21 March 2016 at 12:51, Achanta Vamsi Subhash < > achanta.va...@flipkart.com > > wrote: > > > Gerard, > > > > I think many people use Kafka just like any other stable software. The > > producer and consumer apis are mostly fixed now and many companies across > > the world are using it on production for critical use-cases. I think it > is > > already *expected *to work as per the theory and any bugs need to be > > patched. As there is no one patching the older releases and the companies > > refusing to upgrade due to the way enterprises work, can we somehow start > > towards an LTS release by treating 0.10.0.0 as the LTS release to start > > with? > > > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Gerard Klijs <gerard.kl...@dizzit.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I think Kafka at the moment is not mature enough to support a LTS > > release. > > > I think it will take a lot of effort to 'guarantee' a back-port will be > > > more safe to use in production then the new release. For example, when > > you > > > will manage the release of 0.9.0.2, with the fixes from 0.10.0.0, you > > need > > > to make sure all the 0.9.0.1 clients still work with it, and you don't > > > introduce new bugs by the partial merge. > > > I do think once there will be a 1.0.0.0 release it would be great to > > have a > > > lts release. > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:54 AM Achanta Vamsi Subhash < > > > achanta.va...@flipkart.com> wrote: > > > > > > > *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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards > > Vamsi Subhash > > > -- Regards Vamsi Subhash
