packaging : removed fpm plugin
kafka-1302; cleanup logging in new producer; reviewed by Jay Kreps, Guozhang Wang and Neha Narkhede
KAFKA-1012; Consumer offset management in Kafka; patched by Tejas Patil and Joel Koshy; feedback and reviews from Neha Narkhede, Jun Rao, Guozhang Wang, Sriram Subramanian, Joe Stein, Chris Riccomini
KAFKA-1028 per topic configuration of preference for consistency over availability; reviewed by Neha Narkhede and Jay Kreps
KAFKA-1028 follow up: New test UncleanLeaderElectionTest
KAFKA-1309; Fix cross-compilation issue (due to use of deprecated JavaConversions API in javaapi.OffsetCommitRequest; reviewed by Neha Narkhede
kafka-1307; potential socket leak in new producer and clean up; reviewed by Jay Kreps, Guozhang Wang and Neha Narkhede
kafka-1304; unregistered mbean exception in new producer; reviewed by Jay Kreps
KAFKA-1311 Add a flag to turn off delete topic until it is stable; reviewed by Joel Koshy and Guozhang Wang
KAFKA-1312: Augment .gitignore. Patch from Timothy Chen.
kafka-1297; releaseTarGz target needs signing task; trivial change to README.
KAFKA-1315 log.dirs property in KafkaServer intolerant of trailing slash; reviewed by Neha Narkhede and Guozhang Wang
kafka-1319; kafka jar doesn't depend on metrics-annotation any more; patched by Jun Rao; reviewed by Neha Narkhede
packaging : refactored variable base name
packaging : disable service start by default
packaging : removing plugin