Thanks for the KIP. Can we explain a bit more why this is an important use case to address? For example, do we have concrete examples of people running into this? The way the KIP is written, it sounds like a potential problem but no information is given on whether it's a real problem in practice.
Ismael On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 2:00 AM Stanislav Kozlovski <stanis...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote: > Hey all, > > I'd like to start a discussion on a proposal to help API users from > inadvertently increasing the replication factor of a topic through > the alter partition reassignments API. The KIP describes two fairly > easy-to-hit race conditions in which this can happen. > > The KIP itself is pretty simple, yet has a couple of alternatives that can > help solve the same problem. I would appreciate thoughts from the community > on how you think we should proceed, and whether the proposal makes sense in > the first place. > > Thanks! > > KIP: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-860%3A+Add+client-provided+option+to+guard+against+replication+factor+change+during+partition+reassignments > JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-14121 > > -- > Best, > Stanislav >
