Re: Bug#786460: ITP: kafka -- Distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service

2015-06-18 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Brandon Bradley bradleytas...@gmail.com wrote: Sandro, I have multiple reasons for not contacting Wikimedia or using their work. can you share those with us? The possibility of them having additions for their own purposes is very high. I believe starting

Re: Bug#786460: ITP: kafka -- Distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service

2015-06-18 Thread Brandon Bradley
Sandro, I have multiple reasons for not contacting Wikimedia or using their work. The possibility of them having additions for their own purposes is very high. I believe starting fresh was easier than analyzing and debugging their repo. Init scripts are recommended but not mandatory. Also, using

Fwd: Bug#786460: ITP: kafka -- Distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service

2015-06-18 Thread Brandon Bradley
Hey Emmanuel, Thanks for your reply! This is one of the big things I wanted to address first. Would it be OK to include the gradle wrapper jar as part of the repo for building? I don't know the exact policy about binary artifacts in dsc files. Also, what about including JARs not packaging

Re: Fwd: Bug#786460: ITP: kafka -- Distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service

2015-06-18 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 18/06/2015 16:16, Brandon Bradley a écrit : Would it be OK to include the gradle wrapper jar as part of the repo for building? I don't know the exact policy about binary artifacts in dsc files. Also, what about including JARs not packaging directly into the package? There is really no way

Re: Bug#786460: ITP: kafka -- Distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service

2015-06-18 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi Brandon, Thank you very much for packaging Kafka. In addition to the debian-mentors and debian-java lists you may find some help on the #debian-java IRC channel. I reviewed quickly the package, the main issue is the usage of the gradle wrapper. Since it downloads jars from the internet it

Re: Bug#786460: ITP: kafka -- Distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service

2015-06-18 Thread Brandon Bradley
Hello Faidon, Thank you for coming to talk to us! And your willingness to review/mentor/upload. Glad to know Wikimedia is listening and willing to contribute. Another reason I did separate packaging work was to get the latest version of Kafka running. We can find some time in the next few weeks

Re: Bug#786460: ITP: kafka -- Distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service

2015-06-18 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 07:44:05AM -0500, Brandon Bradley wrote: I have multiple reasons for not contacting Wikimedia or using their work. The possibility of them having additions for their own purposes is very high. I believe starting fresh was easier than analyzing and debugging their repo.

Re: Bug#786460: ITP: kafka -- Distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service

2015-06-17 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Brandon Bradley bradleytas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sandro! And thanks for your reply. Your questions are annotated below. On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: Hi everyone, I'm looking at Brandon's package for kafka, and