Hi, all. I've been working on KAFKA-4667 to change the distributed worker of Kafka Connect to look for the topics used to store connector and task configurations, offsets, and status, and if those tasks do not exist to create them using the new AdminClient. To make this as useful as possible and to minimize the need to still manually create the topics, I propose adding several new distributed worker configurations to specify the partitions and replication factor for these topics, and have outlined them in "KIP-154 Add Kafka Connect configuration properties for creating internal topics".
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-154+Add+Kafka+Connect+configuration+properties+for+creating+internal+topics Please take a look and provide feedback. Thanks! Best regards, Randall
