That's correct.
And yes, it's a public contract and thus a KIP would be needed to change
(or remove it). Deprecation implies that the API is kept for at least 3
releases (ie, one year), plus it can only be removed in a major release.
For example, if we deprecated something in 2.1 release, we
Hi all,
In this JIRA ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7663 it's
documented that Global Stores are bypassed on restoration.
Consequently, the input topic to a Global Store needs to essentially be a
changelog topic as the keys and values are copied directly into the store.
I
