+1. We hosted our own built version of Kafka on our Nexus server as well. -Evan
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Chris Riccomini <criccom...@linkedin.com>wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I was talking with Jay, and he recommended I forward some feedback along. > > I have been playing with Kafka 0.8 this week, and am feeling the pain in > the lack of Maven support for it. Specifically, it'd be nice if this stuff > were: > > 1. In Apache's SNAPSHOT repository > 2. In some release repository. > > I am pretty sure that you guys are aware that it'd be nice to have, but I > think I'd like to elevate the priority to blocker, or at least pretty > critical. > > From a community adoption perspective, it's really damaging to the project > to not have it easily accessible in a repository. To be blunt, if I hadn't > heard of Kafka (and didn't know you guys), and I came across the page, and > discovered that it had no maven coordinates, I'd move on to other solutions > without a second glance. To me, it looks as bad as having no commits for > the project in months. It looks unmaintained. > > If you look at what's already going on with the community, you'll see a > lot of pretty rough things being done to try and get around this issue. > > 1. Storm has its own publication: https://clojars.org/storm/storm-kafka > 2. SenseiDB has it committed in code, and runs a manual install. This > makes it pretty rough if anyone DEPENDS on SenseiDB, as they, in turn, must > do the same thing. > https://github.com/senseidb/sensei/blob/master/sensei-gateways/pom.xml > 3. Druid is hosting its own: > https://metamx.artifactoryonline.com/metamx/pub-libs-releases-local/kafka/core-kafka/ > 4. It's been requested for more than a year: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-133 > > This is only going to get worse when 0.8 is released, as it introduces > even more unmanaged libraries (metrics, zkclient). I assume, currently, > that releasing 0.8 is not contingent on getting those libraries published, > but I think it should be. This is worth doing correctly. I don't think > it'll be fun, but I really do think it's a big deal. > > Any chance we could get this on the road map soon? I think it falls under > 2013 community adoption. > > Thanks! > Chris > -- -- *Evan Chan* Senior Software Engineer | e...@ooyala.com | (650) 996-4600 www.ooyala.com | blog <http://www.ooyala.com/blog> | @ooyala<http://www.twitter.com/ooyala>
