Re: Kafka version and JDK version

2018-03-20 Thread Stephane Maarek
Sounds good ! Thanks for the detailed explanation :) On Wed., 21 Mar. 2018, 11:40 am Ismael Juma, wrote: > Hi Stephane, > > I don't see why we would increment Kafka versions as quick as Java > versions. The way I think it should work is that we support LTS versions > for a long time and only sup

Re: Kafka version and JDK version

2018-03-20 Thread Ismael Juma
Hi Stephane, I don't see why we would increment Kafka versions as quick as Java versions. The way I think it should work is that we support LTS versions for a long time and only support the most recent non LTS version. The latter is to ensure that we catch any issues with newer Java releases quick

Kafka version and JDK version

2018-03-20 Thread Stephane Maarek
Hi If I remember correctly, Kafka 2.0 is targeted this summer as it'll drop support for java 7 and dropping a java version is supposed to imply a major version bump in Kafka. Now that Java has a very quick release cycle for JDK (version 10 today), my question is: how fast will Kafka versioning go