Ismael, Is that regardless of whether it ends up being a major/minor version? i.e. given the way we've phrased (and I think started to follow through on) deprecations, if the next releases were 0.10.3.0 and then 0.11.0.0, the deprecation period would only be one release. That would be a tiny window for a huge deprecation. If the next release ended up 0.11.0.0, then we'd wait (presumably multiple releases until) 0.12.0.0 which could be something like a year.
I think we should deprecate the APIs ASAP since they are effectively unmaintained (or very minimally maintained at best). And I'd actually even like to do so in 0.10.2.0. Perhaps we should consider a slightly customized policy instead? Major deprecations like this might require something slightly different. For example, I think a KIP + release notes that explain we're marking the consumer as deprecated now but it will continue to exist for at least 1 year (regardless of release versions) and will be removed in the next major release *after* 1 year would give users plenty of warning and not result in any weirdness if a major version bump happens relatively soon. (Sorry to drag this into the VOTE thread... If we can agree on that deprecation/removal schedule, I'd love to still get this in by feature freeze, especially since the patch is presumably trivial.) -Ewen On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote: > +1 > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Vahid S Hashemian > <vahidhashem...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > Happy Monday, > > > > I'd like to thank everyone who participated in the discussion around this > > KIP and shared their opinion. > > > > The only concern that was raised was not having a defined migration plan > > yet for existing users of the old consumer. > > I hope that responses to this concern (on the discussion thread) have > been > > satisfactory. > > > > Given the short time we have until the 0.10.2.0 cut-off date I'd like to > > start voting on this KIP. > > > > KIP: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP- > 109%3A+Old+Consumer+Deprecation > > Discussion thread: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@kafka.apache.org/msg63427.html > > > > Thanks. > > --Vahid > > > > > > > > -- > Gwen Shapira > Product Manager | Confluent > 650.450.2760 | @gwenshap > Follow us: Twitter | blog >
