Hi all,
this thought came up on FLINK-17260 [1] but I think it would be a good
idea in general. The issue reminded us that Kafka didn't have an
idempotent/fault-tolerant Producer before Kafka 0.11.0. By now we have
had the "modern" Kafka connector that roughly follows new Kafka releases
for a while and this one supports Kafka cluster versions as far back as
0.10.2.0 (I believe).
What are your thoughts on removing support for older Kafka versions? And
yes, I know that we had multiple discussions like this in the past but
I'm trying to gauge the current sentiment.
I'm cross-posting to the user-ml since this is important for both users
and developers.
Best,
Aljoscha
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-17260
