Hey, Are there any news about the ETA for Kafka version 0.8 release? I saw an old thread about it from April http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-kafka-users/201204.mbox/%3CCAOG_4QaHsP-Oi_R1XRs_5kzXXBZv2_CH5b=emi0gemshw5h...@mail.gmail.com%3E where Neha said it might be released around August. is that still the plan?
we are now researching the use of Kafka as our main message queuing system for a new framework were building, and version 0.8 has a few exiting new features for us like the replicatoin, but even more interesting are the changes to the consumer API especially the central consumer coordination. we would like to be able to consume a topic with a few consumer groups, but enable the same group to have multiple consumers in adjacent locations/nodes and still have a balanced portioning for all of them we were looking at https://github.com/edwardcapriolo/IronCount as a possible solution, but naturally it would be better if it was supported directly by Kafka. Thanks, Yaar
