Reminder: If no one objects, I'm planning on merging PR-99 tomorrow. On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote:
> Hi Kafka fans, > > I'd like to move ahead with getting the initial Copycat patches into Kafka. > > If you'll look at the PR, we still have a number of open questions on the > API (batch connectors, connector upgrades, data formats). I believe it will > be easier to iterate on those independently of getting the basic patch in, > but this means that the API we are committing may change in the next few > month (before the 0.8.3 release). > > Here is my plan: > 1. Add Stability attributes (The type that Hadoop and Guavas have) to > Kafka. > 2. Ewen agreed to mark the data API and connector APIs as "unstable", so > no one will get caught by surprise if they implement a connector and the > APIs move > 3. I will start few concurrent discussions on the mailing list on what we > see as open issues (the data API discussion already started by Ewen). > Please chime in. > 4. While the discussions are still on-going we will commit the initial > CopyCat patch to allow people to try it out and give feedback. > > If someone objects to this plan, please respond ASAP. We'd like to get the > plan done by Friday. > > Thanks, > Gwen > >
