Hi Israel, Thank you for this initiative.
The tool seems pretty cool and I think that it could be useful as well. I haven't tried it yet though. I just watched the video and I found the part which requires to build the docker container really long, perhaps even longer than the validation itself (running the test apart). Could we simplify this? Automating the validation process is a great and risky thing at the same time. Imagine if we would introduce a bug in the scripts. We could all miss an issue in the RC. This is the advantage of our current, boring and manual process. I feel like we would always need some sort of manual sanity checks anyway. It is hard to say if this will really help to have more people validating the release candidates. However, we could advertise it again when we publish RCs for 3.1.0, by mentioning it in the thread, and see if it helps folks. Cheers, David On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 2:06 PM Israel Ekpo <israele...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Please take a moment to review this and share your thoughts. It would be > great to have more community involvement during release candidate > validations > > I am wondering if this should be split up between the site docs repo and > the core code repo or just in the code repo > > Should we include this in future release candidate voting notifications to > the community? > > Also do you think we even need this at all? > > When you have a moment please let me know > > Thanks > > > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 7:18 PM Israel Ekpo <israele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Before you Vote for Apache Kafka RCs, Watch This! > > > > https://youtu.be/T1VqFszLuQs > > > > Hello Kafka Community Members and welcome to the Apache Kafka Release > > Party! > > > > As part of an effort (KAFKA-9861) to get more community participation > > during release candidate (RC) validations, we have created the following > > steps to hopefully allow more community members to participate thoroughly > > in this validation process prior to casting their votes for specific RCs. > > > > It is also our hope that more community members will be able to > > participate in the process as a result. If you have any suggestions for > > improvement or would like to share changes, please feel free to send in a > > pull request or open issues against this github repo. > > > > I would like to solicit feedback from the users, community members, > > committers and PMC members on how this can be incorporated into the > release > > process and AK code base. > > > > My initial thoughts are to include the link to this resource or its > > modified form as part of the release candidate announcement to encourage > > users to participate in the RC validation process. > > > > Thanks in advance for your participation. > > > > *Process Simplification - Community Validation of Kafka Release > Candidates* > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9861 > > > > *Github Repository Accompanying this Tutorial* > > https://github.com/izzyacademy/apache-kafka-release-party > > > > *YouTube Video Explaining the Resources and How to Use It* > > https://youtu.be/T1VqFszLuQs > > >
