GitHub user ewasserman opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1491
remove size and message count constraints KAFKA-1981Make log compaction point configurable Reduced scope to controlling only minimum time before compaction. Changed to using message time when available. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ewasserman/kafka feat-compaction-time-lag Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1491.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 #1491 ---- ---- --- 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. ---