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Sriram Subramanian commented on KAFKA-347: ------------------------------------------ v2.4 the reason to expose it is for manual replica assignment. It is more explicit to specify the rep factor and the assignments for those. Rebased without the zkconsumer connector change. > change number of partitions of a topic online > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-347 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-347 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: core > Affects Versions: 0.8 > Reporter: Jun Rao > Assignee: Sriram Subramanian > Labels: features > Fix For: 0.8.1 > > Attachments: kafka-347.patch, kafka-347-v2.patch, > KAFKA-347-v2-rebased.patch > > > We will need an admin tool to change the number of partitions of a topic > online. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira