GitHub user rwhaling opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/968
KAFKA-3280: KafkaConsumer Javadoc contains misleading description of heartbeat behavior and correct use This is my original work and I license the work to the project under the project's open source license. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/rwhaling/kafka docs/kafkaconsumer-heartbeat-doc-improvement Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/968.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #968 ---- commit fd789dc9b0d9d7c7aa724ab5f4aa0d49a95fcff2 Author: Richard Whaling <rwhal...@spantree.net> Date: 2016-02-25T02:13:32Z clarified documentation of KafkaConsumer heartbeat behavior ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---