KAFKA-330 Delete topic followup - more tests and Joel's review comments
KAFKA-1158 run rat is not needed this is documented now in the release not part of the server running
kafka-1244,kafka-1246,kafka-1249; various gradle issues for release; patched by Jun Rao; reviewed by Neha Narkhede
KAFKA-1263 Snazzy up the README markdown for better visibility on github; patched by Joe Stein; reviewed by Neha Narkhede
KAFKA-1245 the jar files and pom are not being signed so nexus is failing to publish them patch by Joe Stein; Reviewed by Jun Rao
KAFKA-1274 gradle.properties needs the variables used in the build.gradle patch by Joe Stein; Reviewed by Jun Rao
KAFKA-1254 remove vestigial sbt patch by Joe Stein; reviewed by Jun Rao
kafka-1271; controller logs exceptions during ZK session expiration; patched by Jun Rao; reviewed by Guozhang Wang and Jay kreps
auto rebalance last commit
KAFKA-1289 Misc. nitpicks in log cleaner for new 0.8.1 features patch by Jay Kreps, reviewed by Sriram Subramanian and Jun Rao
KAFKA-1288 add enclosing dir in release tar gz patch by Jun Rao, reviewed by Neha Narkhede
KAFKA-1311 Add a flag to turn off delete topic until it is stable; reviewed by Joel and Guozhang
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
KAFKA-1317 KafkaServer 0.8.1 not responding to .shutdown() cleanly, possibly related to TopicDeletionManager or MetricsMeter state; reviewed by Neha Narkhede
KAFKA-1317 follow up fix
KAFKA-1350 Fix excessive state change logging;reviewed by Jun,Joel,Guozhang and Timothy
KAFKA-1358 Broker throws exception when reconnecting to zookeeper; reviewed by Neha Narkhede
KAFKA-1358: Fixing minor log4j statement
KAFKA-1373; Set first dirty (uncompacted) offset to first offset of the
log if no checkpoint exists. Reviewed by Timothy Chen and Neha Narkhede.