Kafka-python

* Add coveralls.io support (sontek PR 307)
* Fix python2.6 threading.Event bug in ReentrantTimer (dpkp PR 312)
* Add kafka 0.8.2.0 to travis integration tests (dpkp PR 310)
* Auto-convert topics to utf-8 bytes in Producer (sontek PR 306)
* Fix reference cycle between SimpleConsumer and ReentrantTimer (zhaopengzp PR 309)
* Add Sphinx API docs (wedaly PR 282)
* Handle additional error cases exposed by 0.8.2.0 kafka server (dpkp PR 295)
* Refactor error class management (alexcb PR 289)
* Expose KafkaConsumer in __all__ for easy imports (Dinoshauer PR 286)
* SimpleProducer starts on random partition by default (alexcb PR 288)
* Add keys to compressed messages (meandthewallaby PR 281)
* Add new high-level KafkaConsumer class based on java client api (dpkp PR 234)
* Add KeyedProducer.send_messages api (pubnub PR 277)
* Fix consumer pending() method (jettify PR 276)
* Update low-level demo in README (sunisdown PR 274)
* Include key in KeyedProducer messages (se7entyse7en PR 268)
* Fix SimpleConsumer timeout behavior in get_messages (dpkp PR 238)
* Fix error in consumer.py test against max_buffer_size (rthille/wizzat PR 225/242)
* Improve string concat performance on pypy / py3 (dpkp PR 233)
* Reorg directory layout for consumer/producer/partitioners (dpkp/wizzat PR 232/243)
* Add OffsetCommitContext (locationlabs PR 217)
* Metadata Refactor (dpkp PR 223)
* Add Python 3 support (brutasse/wizzat - PR 227)
* Minor cleanups - imports / README / PyPI classifiers (dpkp - PR 221)
* Fix socket test (dpkp - PR 222)
* Fix exception catching bug in test_failover_integration (zever - PR 216)

* Warn users that async producer does not reliably handle failures (dpkp - PR 213)
* Fix spurious ConsumerFetchSizeTooSmall error in consumer (DataDog - PR 136)
* Use PyLint for static error checking (dpkp - PR 208)
* Strictly enforce str message type in producer.send_messages (dpkp - PR 211)
* Add test timers via nose-timer plugin; list 10 slowest timings by default (dpkp)
* Move fetching last known offset logic to a stand alone function (zever - PR 177)
* Improve KafkaConnection and add more tests (dpkp - PR 196)
* Raise TypeError if necessary when encoding strings (mdaniel - PR 204)
* Use Travis-CI to publish tagged releases to pypi (tkuhlman / mumrah)
* Use official binary tarballs for integration tests and parallelize travis tests (dpkp - PR 193)
* Improve new-topic creation handling (wizzat - PR 174)

* Add codec parameter to Producers to enable compression (patricklucas - PR 166)
* Support IPv6 hosts and network (snaury - PR 169)
* Remove dependency on distribute (patricklucas - PR 163)
* Fix connection error timeout and improve tests (wizzat - PR 158)
* SimpleProducer randomization of initial round robin ordering (alexcb - PR 139)
* Fix connection timeout in KafkaClient and KafkaConnection (maciejkula - PR 161)
* Fix seek + commit behavior (wizzat - PR 148)

* Connection refactor and test fixes (wizzat - PR 134)
* Fix when partition has no leader (mrtheb - PR 109)
* Change Producer API to take topic as send argument, not as instance variable (rdiomar - PR 111)
* Substantial refactor and Test Fixing (rdiomar - PR 88)
* Fix Multiprocess Consumer on windows (mahendra - PR 62)
* Improve fault tolerance; add integration tests (jimjh)
* PEP8 / Flakes / Style cleanups (Vetoshkin Nikita; mrtheb - PR 59)
* Setup Travis CI (jimjh - PR 53/54)
* Fix import of BufferUnderflowError (jimjh - PR 49)
* Fix code examples in README (StevenLeRoux - PR 47/48)

* Changing auto_commit to False in [SimpleConsumer](kafka/consumer.py), until 0.8.1 is release offset commits are unsupported
* Adding fetch_size_bytes to SimpleConsumer constructor to allow for user-configurable fetch sizes
* Allow SimpleConsumer to automatically increase the fetch size if a partial message is read and no other messages were read during that fetch request. The increase factor is 1.5
* Exception classes moved to kafka.common