Jason, Thanks for the KIP. +1
Just one clarification. The KIP adds a rebalance timeout in the protocol, but didn't say what value will be used. I guess we will use max.poll.interval.ms? Jun On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Jason Gustafson <ja...@confluent.io> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to open the vote for KIP-62. This proposal attempts to address one > of the recurring usability problems that users of the new consumer have > faced with as little impact as possible. You can read the full details > here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-62%3A+Allow+consumer+to+send+heartbeats+from+a+background+thread > . > > After some discussion on this list, I think we were in agreement that this > change addresses a major part of the problem and we've left the door open > for further improvements, such as adding a heartbeat() API or a separately > configured rebalance timeout. Thanks in advance to everyone who helped > review the proposal. > > -Jason >
