Hey All, This is a call for a vote on the release of *Apache Samza 1.8.0.* Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.
The release candidate can be downloaded from here: https://home.apache.org/~ajothomas/samza-1.8.0-rc0/ The release candidate is signed with pgp key *1A4639DA*, which is included in the repository's KEYS file: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=samza.git;a=blob_plain;f=KEYS and can also be found on keyservers: https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=ajothomas%40apache.org&fingerprint=on&op=index <https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=ajothomas%40apache.org&fingerprint=on&op=index> The git tag is *release-1.8.0-rc0* and signed with the same pgp key: https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=samza.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/release-1.8.0-rc0 <https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=samza.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/release-1.8.0-rc0> Test binaries have been published to Maven's staging repository, and are available here: URL: https://repository.apache.org/#stagingRepositories <https://repository.apache.org/#stagingRepositories> Repository: orgapachesamza-1095 (org.apache.samza) Please download the release candidate, check the hashes/signature, build it and test it, and then please vote: [ ] +1 approve [ ] +0 no opinion [ ] -1 disapprove (and reason why) Please note that check-all.sh was run and integration tests *were not *run as there are some issues with the legacy zopkio library used for integration testing. However, most of the key features being released as a part of this release have been tested and are currently used in many of our production jobs at LinkedIn. hadoop/yarn3 changes have been tested with https://github.com/apache/samza-hello-samza which brings up yarn 3, zookeeper and kafka clusters locally for testing. Thanks, Ajo
