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Jun Rao resolved KAFKA-2110.
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Resolution: Fixed
Fix Version/s: 0.8.3
Assignee: Peter Vandenabeele
Thanks for reporting this. Fix the documentation for 0.8.3.
> Doc: Clarify that max number of consumer instances is per consumer group
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> Key: KAFKA-2110
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2110
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Environment: Online documentation:
> http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#introduction
> Reporter: Peter Vandenabeele
> Assignee: Peter Vandenabeele
> Priority: Trivial
> Fix For: 0.8.3
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> Suggest to modify in the Introduction, section "Consumers" to clarify that
> the maximum amount of consumer instances is *per consumer group*:
> "Note however that there cannot be more consumer instances than partitions."
> =>
> "Note however that there cannot be more consumer instances in a consumer
> group than partitions."
> and
> "... though this will mean only one consumer process."
> =>
> "... though this will mean only one consumer process per consumer group."
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