Github user liurenjie1024 commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1825
Maybe we do not need to maintain two versions of `KafkaSpout` with same
functionality. The main goal of automatic partition management is to ease fault
tolerant in simple applications, not in frameworks like storm. Automatic
partition management may hide extra overhead and unpredictable behavior which
is unnecessary in frameworks like storm.
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