+1 We also host our packages (kafka-scala28 and kafka-scala292) on our Nexus server Multiple Scala versions support would be nice as well.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Evan Chan <e...@ooyala.com> wrote: > +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> >
