Github user tzulitai commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5173#discussion_r160607814
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flink-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-base/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/partitioner/FlinkFixedPartitioner.java
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@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@
* To avoid such an unbalanced partitioning, use a round-robin kafka
partitioner (note that this will
* cause a lot of network connections between all the Flink instances and
all the Kafka brokers).
*/
+@Internal
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Not sure here. This could be `@PublicEvolving`.
It could very well be that the user simply instantiates a
`FlinkFixedPartitioner` as the provided custom partitioner.
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